Drosera gunniana

Tuberous perennial. Tuber globose to ovoid, typically pink or red at maturity. Stem erect, to 30 cm tall, simple or branched from upper nodes, sometimes basally branching but with one clearly dominant stem, glabrous, green to red, often suffused red close to base. Basal rosette of leaves usually moderately well-developed at anthesis, petiole flattened, 3–14 mm long, lamina 5–10 mm diam., sub-orbicular-lunate, not peltate, yellow to green. Cauline leaves astipulate, lowermost leaves somtimes reduced to a petiole bearing a minute, unexpanded lamina, otherwise with an expanded lamina borne on a petiole 7–10 mm long, lamina lunate, auriculate and peltate, 5–6 mm diam. Inflorescence a terminal or subterminal scorpioid cyme subtended by several vegetative internodes, branching or unbranched; bracts lanceolate, fimbriate, hairy; sepals 5, green to blackish, ovate, apex truncate, 3–5 mm long and wide, margins fimbriate, indumentum dense, 0.8–1.2 mm long; petals pink or white, 5–8 mm long, obovate; seeds black, ellipsoid-ampulliform with a short neck, 0.5 mm long, c. 0.25 mm wide, seed testa reticulate. Flowers Sep.–Nov., summer dormant.