Tuber absent. Stem reduced, stolons often present. Leaves in basal rosette, erect; petiole slender, 4–30 cm long, glabrous; lamina once to twice divided into narrowly linear lobes 2–10 cm long, curled inwards when young; stipules membranous, 3–5 mm long. Inflorescences 1 or 2, up to 3-branched, each branch a 15–30-flowered raceme, to 50 cm long; bracts linear, 1–2 mm long; pedicels 5-mm long; sepals 5, ovate, 6–7 mm long, glabrous, margin ± entire to serrulate, apex acute or laciniate; petals 5, obovate, 9–14 mm long, white; styles 3, each 1–2.5 mm long, with a few dichotomous branches. Flowers mainly Sep.–Mar.
GleP, Brid, VVP, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, VAlp. Also SA, Qld, NSW, Tas. New Zealand. Occurs in swamps with wet sand and sandy peat, on creekbanks and rocky ledges.
Source:
Conn, B.J. (1996). Droseraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 356–361. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
