Drosera capensis L.

Fairly robust plants with well developed roots. Stems short, woody, rhizomatous below. Leaves congested, the young leaves erect, the old ones spreading; petiole about as long as the lamina, flattened, glabrescent; stipules ovate, c. 1 cm long, brown; lamina linear, up to 15 cm long, 4 mm broad, apex truncate to obtuse, tentacles of the knob-shaped type only, forming a dense fringe along the margin, fewer and shorter in the centre; lower surface smooth, glabrous. Inflorescence with the leafless, axillary scape curved outwards below, about 25 cm long, firm, bearing some small broad-based setae beside the glandular pubescence; pedicels up to 8 mm long, ascending; flowers 15-30, secund, close together. Calyx-lobes c. 5 mm long, sparsely setose. Petals broadly obovate, up to 15 mm long, pink to reddish purple or mauve. Stamens short with a rhomboid connective, the locules diverging below. Styles divided from the base, stigma apical, swollen. Capsule oblong, 4 mm; seeds fusiform, 0.8 mm long with the testa beaded-papillate, with an oblong pale extension of the testa at the apex, the basal extension small.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.