Drosera helodes
Drosera helodes is a small sundew from south-west Western Australia, described by Marchant and Lowrie in 1992. Its name means 'of marshes', and the records cluster around Perth and the Darling Range. The climate there is Mediterranean, with a wet, mild winter and a long, hot, dry summer, so it grows in the cool season and rests through summer. Beyond its name and range, little was found in the sources that could be opened.
Where it grows wild
The epithet (from the Greek helodes, 'marshy') and the record sites on the Swan Coastal Plain and Darling Scarp point to seasonally wet, sandy or peaty swamp margins. No habitat description could be opened, so this is inferred. It is usually treated as one of the pygmy sundews of this region, which grow in open, winter-wet sandy flats.
The sites lie at 9–272 m on the coastal plain and the edge of the scarp. Few records carry an elevation.
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