Drosera sessilifolia

Drosera sessilifolia is a carnivorous sundew in the genus Drosera, native to Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. It grows in sandy or gravelly soils in seasonal seepages where a thin film of water collects, and it forms a rosette of small, wedge-shaped to round carnivorous leaves that are usually yellowish but become redder with age. Its inflorescences bear pink-lilac flowers, and it has a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 20. Augustin Saint-Hilaire first described it in 1824 from the western end of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais near the Sao Francisco River. George Bentham later described Drosera dentata from Guyana, which Ludwig Diels reduced to a synonym in 1906. Its closest relative in section Thelocalyx is Drosera burmanni.