Drosera acaulis
Species of carnivorous plant
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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 | |
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| 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]