Drosophyllaceae
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 Drosophyllum lusitanicum
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Drosophyllaceae is a family of flowering plants, containing a single gensu and species.
The APG system (1998) and APG II system (2003) assigns the family to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. The family consists of a single species, Drosophyllum lusitanicum, a carnivorous plant. This species had previously always been included in the family Droseraceae, as it catches insects with a method reminiscent of that used by many plants in that family.
Recent molecular and biochemical evidence (see the AP-Website) suggests that the carnivorous taxa in the order Caryophyllales (the families Droseraceae, Drosophyllaceae, Nepenthaceae, and the species Triphyophyllum peltatum) all belong to the same clade which does not consist only of carnivorous plants but also includes some non-carnivorous plants such as those in the family Ancistrocladaceae.
