Drosera aliciae is a rosetted sundew native to the Cape Region of South Africa. The species is named in honour of Dr. Alice Rasse, who encouraged the author Raymond Hamet to study sundews and who subsequently described it in 1905.
Drosera aliciae has small flat-lying rosettes around 2-3 cm in diameter. The leaves are long and strappy, with tentacles along their entire length. The undersides of the leaves are densely covered in furry white hairs. There are obvious stipules at the base of the leaves at the center of the rosette. The flower stalk is covered in glands and the flowers are pink.
The species grows in permanently moist niches in the Western and Eastern Cape regions of South Africa. Such niches are usually located in the mountains where permanent seepages form. It is particularly abundant in the Outeniqua Mountains at the transition zone between the winter- and summer rainfall regions where year-round rainfall and frequent mist allow it to grow in exposed habitats.
Drosera aliciae is similar in appearance to other flat rosetted sundews that share its niche. It is most similar to D. curviscapa, which is considered by some authors to be conspecific but differs by its smaller size and thinner leaves (D. curivscapa is larger in proportion and usually has more dilated laminae). D. aliciae differs from D. trinervia and D. admirabilis by the obvious stipules at the base of its leaves (those species lack obvious stipules).