Drosera glabriscapa is a sundew in Drosera section Arachnopus (indica complex) that is endemic to the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. It is named for its glabrous scapes.
Drosera glabriscapa is a medium sized sundew that grows to around 15 cm tall. The leaves are slender, with a long, glandular lamina and short petiole. The main stem is covered in small glandular hairs. The flower scape is glabrous as its name suggests. The flowers are cerise pink in colour with darker red centers. The stamens are deltoid in shape, with a broad, blunt triangular apex.
The species is endemic to sandstone habitat in the Northern Kimberley region of Western Australia. I observed it north of Kalumburu where it was growing in a sandstone outcrop area where it occupied the skeletal seeps emanating out of the surrounding grassland onto a rock platform. The species is a strict annual, growing and flowering in the second half of the wet season, before dying when its habitat dries out during the dry season.
Drosera glabriscapa is superficially similar to other members of section Arachnopus (indica complex). The flowers are most similar to D. fragrans in colour and stamen morphology. Drosera glabriscapa is a much smaller plant, and lacks red aglandular indumenta on the backs of its leaves (D. fragrans is generally larger, and has fleshy red indumenta on the backs of the leaves).




