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Drosera acaulis [family DROSERACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Drosera acaulis [family DROSERACEAE]
Common names
D. acaulis Thunb., Prodr. 57 (1794); Diss. IF, 406 (1800); Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 278 (1823); Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 6 : 759 (1820); Planch, in Ann. Sci Nat. ser 3, 9 : 303 (1848); Hamet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 54 : 31 (1907). Type : as for D. acaulis L.f. D. pauciflora var. acaulis (Thunb.)Sond. in F.C. 1 : 78 (1860); Diels in Pflanzenr. 4, 112 : 109(1906).
Information
Dwarf, rosulate herbs with 1-2 thin roots. Leaves c. 8, apetiolate, exstipulate, unequal in length, lamina narrowly spathulate, c. 7 mm long, 2 mm wide, bearing both types 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. Fig. 28 : i.
Use
1. Drosera acaulis L.f., Suppl. 188 (1781); Willd., Sp. PI. 1, 2 : 1543 (1798). Type: Cape, Ceres district, Koude Bokkeveld, beyond Elandskloof, Thunberg (S, holo.; UPS; PRE, photo.).
Range
Known only from the type locality and collections on or near the Matroosberg at altitudes of over 1,800 metres. Flowering December.
Drosera acaulis [family DROSERACEAE]
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