Drosera cucullata

Drosera cucullata is a species of sundew endemic to the north of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It was first described by Allen Lowrie in his 2014 Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus.^[2] Like other members of Drosera sect. Arachnopus it is an annual therophyte.^[3]

Drosera cucullata
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Droseraceae
Genus:	Drosera
Subgenus:	Drosera subg. Drosera
Section:	Drosera sect. Arachnopus
Species:	D. cucullata
Binomial name
Drosera cucullata Lowrie

The species name refers to the stamens, which are large, red and "hooded like a threatened cobra" (from Latin cucullatus [hooded]).^[4]