Drosera aquatica

{{Short description|Species of carnivorous plant}}

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| genus = Drosera

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| parent = Drosera sect. Arachnopus

| species = aquatica

| authority = Lowrie

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite journal|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/97491393/143986957|last=Bourke|first=G.|date=2016|title=Drosera aquatica|journal=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species|volume=2018|issue=e.T97491393A143986957|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T97491393A143986957.en|accessdate=28 September 2024}}

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Drosera aquatica is a species of sundew endemic to the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It was first described by Allen Lowrie in 2013.{{IPNI|id=77142013-1|taxon=Drosera aquatica|accessdate=28 September 2024}} Like other members of Drosera sect. Arachnopus it is an annual therophyte.{{cite book |last1=Fleischmann |first1=Andreas |last2=Cross |first2=Adam |last3=Gibson |first3=Robert |last4=Gonella |first4=Paulo |last5=Dixon |first5=Kingsley |title=Systematics and taxonomy of Droseraceae. In: Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, ecology and evolution |date=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780198779841 |pages=45–57 |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/27905 |access-date=22 September 2024}}

As the specific epithet implies, D. aquatica can be entirely aquatic, floating on the surface of floodwaters from the Australian monsoon.{{cite journal |last1=Ng |first1=Boaz |title=Carnivorous Plants of Australia's Top End |journal=Carnivorous Plant Newsletter |date=2021 |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=133–140 |doi=10.55360/cpn503.bn639 |url=https://cpn.carnivorousplants.org/articles/CPNv50n3p133_140.pdf |access-date=28 September 2024}}