Drosera acaulis

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Drosera acaulis
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Drosera acaulis growing in Cederberg, South Africa
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Droseraceae
Genus: Drosera
Subgenus: Drosera subg. Drosera
Section: Drosera sect. Drosera
Species:
D. acaulis
Binomial name
Drosera acaulis
L.f.

Drosera acaulis is a small rosette-forming carnivorous plant in to the family Droseraceae. It is endemic to the south-west Cape Province of South Africa [1] and was first described by Carl Linnaeus the Younger in his 1781 Supplementum Plantarum .

D. acaulis is a dwarf, rosulate herb with 1-2 thin roots. Leaves are 8 apetiolate, exstipulate, unequal in length, lamina narrowly spathulate approximately 7 mm long and 2 mm wide, bearing both type of tentacles, otherwise glabrous. Flower solitary on a pedicel 1–2 mm long, glandular pubescent. Calyx lobes c. 3 mm long. Petals obovate, c. 6 mm long, red or purple. Stamens with terete foments, the connective not rhomboidal. Styles forked from the base, stigmatic apex flabellately multifid. [2]

References

  1. "Drosera acaulis". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 2025-07-05.
  2. "Drosera acaulis | Cape Carnivores". Cape carnivores. Retrieved 22 May 2025.