Rosette loosely open with 5-8 leaves, scapes c. 1 cm long with 1-
2 flowers _ssp.occidentalis_
Rosette compact with 20-30 leaves, scapes c. 2.5 cm long with 1-
8 flowers _ssp.australis_
Are the stigma lobes of your unIDed pygmy _Drosera_ club-
shaped (i.e. widest near the apex, as in _D.pygmaea_) or rather
fusiform (widest near middle, like in many forms of
_D.leucoblasta_), or filiform and narrow throughout (like in
_D.chrysochila_)? I suppose inflorescences are single-flowered,
and corolla colour is purely white, right?
If your plant looks like _D.pygmaea_, it could be a 5-petalled aberrant
form of _D.pygmaea_ (if it is from E AU, but such forms are not known to
me yet), or you could have a form of _D.occidentalis_ (if it is from SW
AU, this seems more probable).
These two species are sometimes difficult to separate (especially
the 4-petalled forms of _D.occidentalis_ with single-flowered
inflorescences, suspected by Allen Lowrie to represent
_D.pygmaea_ in SW AU; TMHO this is rather _D.occidentalis_, the only reasonable difference between the two species being their
different ranges). Maybe we should consider _D.occidentalis_
only a ssp. of _D.pygmaea_, but this would contradict the
traditional separation of the 4-petalled and 5-petalled pygmy
sundews. Thus, I don't dare such transfers until my synoptical
key for the whole genus is published (I'm still waiting for Martin
Cheek's comments...).
Kind regards
Jan
PS: I'll ask Joachim Nerz about Robert's order.