Drosera acaulis

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.

Drosera acaulis
Drosera acaulis growing in Cederberg, South Africa
Scientific classification
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.

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]