List of Pinguicula species
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- This article is a list of the Butterworts, the species of the genus PinguiculaPinguiculaThe butterworts are a group of carnivorous plants comprising the genus Pinguicula. Members of this genus use sticky, glandular leaves to lure, trap, and digest insects in order to supplement the poor mineral nutrition they obtain from the environments. Of the roughly 80 currently known species, 12...
. For general information on butterworts, please see the main article on PinguiculaPinguiculaThe butterworts are a group of carnivorous plants comprising the genus Pinguicula. Members of this genus use sticky, glandular leaves to lure, trap, and digest insects in order to supplement the poor mineral nutrition they obtain from the environments. Of the roughly 80 currently known species, 12...
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The genus Pinguicula
Pinguicula
The butterworts are a group of carnivorous plants comprising the genus Pinguicula. Members of this genus use sticky, glandular leaves to lure, trap, and digest insects in order to supplement the poor mineral nutrition they obtain from the environments. Of the roughly 80 currently known species, 12...
contains the 83 species of butterworts, belonging to the Bladderwort family (Lentibulariaceae
Lentibulariaceae
Lentibulariaceae is a family of carnivorous plants containing three genera, Genlisea, the corkscrew plants, Pinguicula, the butterworts, and Utricularia, the bladderworts....
). It has a natural distribution across most of the northern hemisphere, though over half of the species are concentrated in Mexico and Central America. Siegfried Jost Casper
Siegfried Jost Casper
Siegfried Jost Casper is a German biologist whose primary research is in limnology and the plant genus Pinguicula . Together with Heinz-Dieter Krausch he has published a basic reference work on the sweet-water flora of central Europe. For many years he studied the East German lake Stechlinsee as...
systematically
Systematics
Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of terrestrial life, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees...
divided them into three subgenera
Subgenus
In biology, a subgenus is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.In zoology, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the generic name and the specific epithet: e.g. the Tiger Cowry of the Indo-Pacific, Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, which...
with 15 sections
Section (botany)
In botany, a section is a taxonomic rank below the genus, but above the species. The subgenus, if present, is higher than the section, and the rank of series, if present, is below the section. Sections are typically used to help organise very large genera, which may have hundreds of species...
. Subsequent phylogenetic research showed that many of these groupings are polyphyletic, but they are used below.
Subgenus Isoloba
Section Agnata
- Pinguicula agnataPinguicula agnataPinguicula agnata is a tropical species of carnivorous plant in the family lentibulariaceae. Its flowers are a blue-violet color....
- Pinguicula albida
- Pinguicula filifolia
- Pinguicula giganteaPinguicula giganteaPinguicula gigantea is a tropical species of carnivorous plant in the family Lentibulariaceae. Its native range is within Mexico. P. giganteas flower is usually a purple colour with the occasional light blue also seen. P. gigantea...
- Pinguicula benedicta
- Pinguicula cubensis
- Pinguicula infundibuliformis
- Pinguicula pilosa
- Pinguicula lithophyticaPinguicula lithophyticaPinguicula lithophytica is a species of butterwort that is endemic to the central region of Cuba. It was described by Cristina M. Panfet-Valdés and Paul Temple in 2008. They placed it in subgenus Isoloba, section Agnata, noting that there were morphological similarities between P. lithophytica and...
Section Cardiophyllum
- Pinguicula crystallina
- Pinguicula crystallina ssp. hirtiflora
Section Heterophyllum
- Pinguicula acuminataPinguicula acuminataPinguicula acuminata is an insectivorous plant of the genus Pinguicula endemic to the Mexican state of Hidalgo, a member of the section Heterophyllum. It is notable for producing flowers while the winter rosette is buried beneath the soil surface. Described in 1839, it was not rediscovered until...
- Pinguicula heterophylla
- Pinguicula kondoi
- Pinguicula mirandae
- Pinguicula parvifolia
- Pinguicula rotundiflora
- Pinguicula imitatrix
- Pinguicula conzattiiPinguicula conzattiiPinguicula conzattii is an insectivorous plant of the genus Pinguicula native to the Mexican state of Oaxaca, a member of the section Heterophyllum. Closely related to Pinguicula mirandae, it is notable for being pubescent on both sides of its winter leaves.-Morphology:P. conzattii is a perennial...
Section Isoloba
- Pinguicula lilacina
- Pinguicula pumila: Small Butterwort
- Pinguicula sharpii
- Pinguicula takakii
- Pinguicula caerulea: Blueflower Butterwort
- Pinguicula ionanthaPinguicula ionanthaPinguicula ionantha is a rare species of flowering plant in the bladderwort family known by the common names Godfrey's butterwort and violet butterwort. It is endemic to the US state of Florida, where it only occurs in the central Florida Panhandle...
: Godfrey's Butterwort, Violet Butterwort - Pinguicula lutea: Yellow Butterwort
- Pinguicula planifolia: Chapman's Butterwort
- Pinguicula primulifloraPinguicula primulifloraPinguicula primuliflora, commonly known as the Primrose Butterwort, is a species of carnivorous plant belonging to the genus Pinguicula. It is native to the southeastern United States. The typical variety forms a white flower in blooming...
: Southern Butterwort - Pinguicula lusitanicaPinguicula lusitanicaPinguicula lusitanica, commonly known as the Pale Butterwort, is a small butterwort that grows wild in acidic peat bog areas along coastal western Europe from western Scotland and Ireland south through western England and western France to Iberia, and Morocco in northwestern Africa.It usually...
Section Crassifolia
- Pinguicula esseriana
- Pinguicula ehlersiae
- Pinguicula debbertiana
- Pinguicula jaumavensis
Section Homophyllum
- Pinguicula greenwoodii
- Pinguicula jackii
- Pinguicula lippoldii
- Pinguicula toldensisPinguicula toldensisPinguicula toldensis is an insectivorous plant of the genus Pinguicula endemic to the Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa mountain region of eastern Cuba....
Section Longitubus
- Pinguicula calderoniae
- Pinguicula crassifolia
- Pinguicula hemiepiphytica
- Pinguicula laueana
- Pinguicula utricularioides
Section Nana
- Pinguicula villosa: Hairy Butterwort
Section Orcheosanthus
- Pinguicula macrophylla
- Pinguicula oblongiloba
- Pinguicula colimensis
- Pinguicula cyclosecta
- Pinguicula mesophytica
- Pinguicula moranensisPinguicula moranensisPinguicula moranensis is a perennial rosette-forming insectivorous herb native to Mexico and Guatemala. A species of butterwort, it forms summer rosettes of flat, succulent leaves up to 10 centimeters long, which are covered in mucilagenous glands that attract, trap, and digest arthropod...
- Pinguicula orchidioidesPinguicula orchidioidesPinguicula orchidioides is a perennial rosette-forming insectivorous herb native to Mexico and Guatemala. A species of butterwort, it forms summer rosettes of flat, succulent leaves up to 5 centimeters long, which are covered in mucilagenous glands that attract, trap, and digest arthropod...
(Synonym P. stolonifera) - Pinguicula zecheri
- Pinguicula gypsicolaPinguicula gypsicolaPinguicula gypsicola is an insectivorous plant of the genus Pinguicula native to the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, a heterophyllous member of the section Orcheosanthus. It grows in gypsum soils and forms stemless rosettes of upright, narrow leaves.-Morphology:P. gypsicola is a perennial...
- Pinguicula moctezumae
- Pinguicula elizabethiaePinguicula elizabethiaePinguicula elizabethiae is a perennial rosette-forming insectivorous herb native to the Mexican states of Querétaro and Hidalgo. A species of butterwort, it forms summer rosettes of flat, succulent leaves up to 5 centimeters long, which are covered in mucilagenous glands that attract, trap,...
Section Pinguicula
- Pinguicula balcanica
- Pinguicula balcanica var. tenuilaciniata
- Pinguicula corsica
- Pinguicula poldinii
- Pinguicula grandifloraPinguicula grandifloraPinguicula grandiflora, commonly known as the large-flowered butterwort, is a temperate insectivorous plant in the Lentibulariaceae family. One distinguishing feature of the species is its flower, which is much larger than the average for the genus....
- Pinguicula grandiflora ssp. rosea
- Pinguicula leptoceras
- Pinguicula longifoliaPinguicula longifoliaPinguicula longifolia, commonly known as the long-leaved butterwort, is a perennial carnivorous sub-alpine plant of the Central Pyrenees, found on both sides of the border...
- Pinguicula longifolia ssp. causensis
- Pinguicula longifolia ssp. dertosensis
- Pinguicula longifolia ssp. reichenbachiana
- Pinguicula macroceras: California Butterwort
- Pinguicula macroceras var. macroceras
- Pinguicula macroceras ssp. nortensis
- Pinguicula mundi
- Pinguicula nevadensis
- Pinguicula vallisneriifolia
- Pinguicula vulgarisPinguicula vulgarisPinguicula vulgaris, the Common butterwort, is a perennial carnivorous plant in the Lentibulariaceae family. It grows to a height of 3–16 cm, and is topped with a purple, and occasionally white, flower that is 15 mm or longer, and shaped like a funnel. This butterwort grows in damp...
: Common Butterwort
Section Ampullipalatum
- Pinguicula antarctica
- Pinguicula calyptrata
- Pinguicula chilensis
- Pinguicula involuta
- Pinguicula elongata
Section Micranthus
- Pinguicula algida
- Pinguicula alpinaPinguicula alpinaPinguicula alpina, also known as the alpine butterwort, is species of carnivorous plant native to high latitudes and altitudes throughout Eurasia. It is one of the most widespread Pinguicula species, being found in mountainous regions from Iceland to the Himalayas...
: Alpine Butterwort
- Pinguicula ramosaPinguicula ramosaPinguicula ramosa is a species of butterwort, a carnivorous plant, endemic to the mountains of Nikkō National Park in Japan. It belongs to the section micranthus and is closely related to Pinguicula variegata...
- Pinguicula variegata
Section Temnoceras
- Pinguicula clivorum
- Pinguicula crenatiloba
- Pinguicula emarginata
- Pinguicula gracilis
- Pinguicula immaculata