Drosera peruensis
Drosera peruensis is a red rosette sundew, 10–29 cm across, from the eastern Andes of Peru and southern Ecuador. It was described from shrubland on white sandstone in the Cordillera Yanachaga near Oxapampa, where it grows in deep, spongy sphagnum peat. It is a highland plant, recorded mostly at 2000–2900 m. It needs cool, humid, bright conditions and constantly wet, nutrient-poor peat.
Where it grows wild
At the type locality, Cerro Pajonal near Oxapampa, it grows in shrubland on white sandstone with spongy sphagnum. The peat layer there can reach 2 m thick. Specimen labels also record it colonising a sandy, wet landslide on a steep slope, and it has been collected on the sandstone ridges of Cerro Picorana (Yanachaga), the Sira Communal Reserve and the Ecuador–Peru border ranges.
It is recorded at 1000–2900 m, median 2750 m (29 records). Most collections are at 2000–2900 m on isolated sandstone summits.
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