Drosophyllum
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{{Taxobox | color = lightgreen | name = Drosophyllum (Dewy Pine) | image = Dros2.jpg | image_width = 240px | image_caption = Drosophyllum in the wild | regnum = Plantae | divisio = Magnoliophyta | classis = Magnoliopsida | ordo = Caryophyllales | familia = Drosophyllaceae | genus = Drosophyllum | species = D. lusitanicum | binomial = Drosophyllum lusitanicum | binomial_authority = (L.) Link }}
Drosophyllum is a genus of carnivorous plants containing the single species Drosophyllum lusitanicum or Dewy pine. Drosophyllum is very similar to the closely related genus Drosera (the sundews), and to the much more distantly related Byblis (the rainbow plants).
The single species is native to Portugal, Spain and Morocco, and is one of the few carnivorous plants to grow in dry, alkaline soil. The long, glandular leaves lack the power of movement common to most sundews, but have the unusual characteristic of being coiled outward when immature. The plant has a slightly sweet smell, which attracts the insects it preys upon. When the insects land on the leaves, they find themselves stuck to the mucilage secreted by the stalked glands on the leaves. The more the insects struggle, the more ensnared they become; ultimately dying of suffocation.
The genus had always been assumed to be closely allied to Drosera and was previously placed in the Droseraceae, however, recent molecular and biochemical data place it in the monotypic Drosophyllaceae (Chrtek, Slaviková & Studnicka), as recommended by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, and allied with the Dioncophyllaceae (Triphyophyllum) and Ancistrocladaceae.