Drosera roraimae
A sundew from the Guayana Highlands of Venezuela, Guyana and northern Brazil, named after Mount Roraima. It grows in open, wet, nutrient-poor places: tepui bogs on peat and sandstone, wet savanna, seepages and sandy stream margins. It spans a wide altitude range but is most common at about 1200–2100 m. Grow it like a tepui highlander: bright light, constant moisture, and mild days with cool nights.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe scrub forest and tepui bog on peat and sandstone with Bonnetia, Ilex and Brocchinia, and open sandstone outcrops with scrub. Lower down it grows in wet savanna, swamp edges and on waterlogged sandy stream banks. One Brazilian record calls it rupicolous, on rock in lightly flooded ground. The leaves are often wine-red with red glandular hairs, and the flowers are white.
GBIF records span 325–2850 m. The middle half fall between about 1200 and 2100 m (median about 1580 m), and summit records from Roraima and other tepuis reach 2750–2850 m.
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