Drosera peltata Thunb.

Tuberous herb; vertical stolon 3–6 cm long. Stem erect, usually simple, sometimes shortly branched, 6–50 cm long, glabrous. Leaves usually in flat basal rosette and cauline; basal leaves 5–10, the lamina spathulate-flabellate, 4–7 mm long, peltate, on petiole 10–15 mm long; cauline leaves alternate, the lamina broadly crescentic, 4–7 mm long, with acute angles, peltate, on petiole 10–17 mm long. Inflorescence a 1–sided raceme, 5–10–flowered; peduncle usually c. 2 cm long but up to 50 cm; pedicels 8–10 mm long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 2–4 mm long, densely pubescent or glabrous, ciliate, laciniate or dentate. Petals obovate, 4–7 mm long, white. Styles 3, 0.4–0.6 mm long, each divided into many slender segments. Seeds 0.2–0.6 mm long.

Grassy places, old lavastreams, open grassy slopes in thin pine and Casuarina forests, along road-sides as a kremnophyte, on heaths, or on wet peaty soils containing a good deal of sand (Lake Habbema, acc. to BRASS), except in the Papuan localities mostly restricted to regions with a pronounced dry monsoon, 800-2400(-3225) m. Fl. fr. Dec-June, in Luzon May-July, at Lake Habbema in Aug., on Mt Giluwe in May.

Can be grown by seedlings.