Drosera acaulis
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About
A small, dwarf, rosette-forming carnivorous plant, *Drosera acaulis* is notable for its delicate, narrowly spathulate leaves and its endemic status to the south-west Cape Province of South Africa.
Field notes
Morphology
The plant is a dwarf, rosulate herb with 1-2 thin roots. Leaves are 8 apetiolate, exstipulate, unequal in length, with a lamina narrowly spathulate, approximately 7 mm long and 2 mm wide, bearing both types of tentacles. Flowers are solitary on a pedicel 1–2 mm long, with obovate petals of about 6 mm, which are red or purple.
Distribution & habitat
Endemic to the south-west Cape Province of South Africa.
History & etymology
First described by Carl Linnaeus the Younger in his 1781 Supplementum Plantarum.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- intermediate