Drosera callistos
A pygmy sundew from south-west Western Australia, named from the Greek for 'most beautiful' for its showy flowers. It forms a tiny rosette that grows through the cool, wet winter, flowers in spring, and rests over the hot, dry summer as a bud protected by stipules. It propagates readily from gemmae produced in autumn.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels describe dry laterite gravel, brown gravelly or sandy loam over laterite or granite, and slopes in marri and jarrah (Corymbia calophylla and Eucalyptus marginata) woodland. The ground is wet through winter and spring and bakes dry in summer.
Records lack elevations. The sites around York, Flint and Chittering lie on the eastern Darling Range and western wheatbelt, at roughly 200–400 m.
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