Drosera menziesii

Drosera menziesii, the pink rainbow, is an erect or scrambling perennial tuberous species in the carnivorous plant genus Drosera. It is endemic to Western Australia, where it grows in winter-wet depressions, swamps and granite outcrops, in clay, peat sand or loam soils. The erect, undulating stem can reach between about 0.05 and 1.1 meters high and bears small, circular carnivorous leaves, and pink flowers open from July to November. Robert Brown first mentioned the species, and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle formally described it in 1824 from a type specimen collected by Georgiana Molloy at the Vasse River, now held in the Herbarium Berolinense in Berlin. Four subspecies have been published, including the autonym: basifolia, which has a dense cluster of basal leaves on the lower stem, plus penicillaris and thysanosepala, which were first described as a separate variety and a separate species before being reduced to subspecies.