Pinguicula calyptrata - South American specimens with Coordinates
From Missouri Botanical Garden - w3 - Specimen Data Base - 06 Feb 2003
Articles about Pinguicula
A Dictionary of Carnivorous Plant Names
Plant name etymological derivations and meanings…
Is Pinguicula crystallina subsp. hirtiflora from Roya Valley an introduced population?
He feels that this population can’t be natural because, it is so far from the other populations and there is so many hundreds kilometers to go. His opini...
Difficult Environmental Conditions Cause Mutations
In the thirties Hagerup, Tischler and other authors came up with a hypothesis saying that periods of hard environmental conditions…
Pinguicula Distribution and Growth
Pinguicula can be found in north, central and south America, in Greenland, in most parts of Europe, at the very north-western tip of Africa and in some scatt...
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Variation in Pinguicula Flowers
Color and shape variations in flowers of a same population of Pinguicula…
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Gallery of Bizarre Pinguicula Mutations
Sometimes our plants want to amaze us and adopt a so uncommon look… If you are not scared by what can be enclosed in the “Bizarre Gallery”, dare visiting…
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Herbario Nacional MEXU
The Herbario Nacional is a consultation center for studies of the Mexican flora. Its national and international importance is reflected in the high number of...
Hurricane Georges and Pinguicula casabitoana
George was of course Hurricane Georges. It hit the Caribbean at a speed of 103mph with gusts to 115mph. On 29 September 1998 Georges killed over 300 people i...
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Are Pinguicula Discoverers Lazy?
I have not the pretentiousness to answer to this humoristic question but here are some choosen pictures from worldwide Pinguicula location to help you making...
Field trip to Alfred Lau’s Gardens
No trip to Oaxaca is complete without taking a bus along route 175 from Oaxaca City to Valle Nacional where my Chinantec friends live. This route starts in a...
Wet and Dry Seasons in Mexico
Observations about seasonal environmental conditions that Pingiucula experience in Mexico…
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Pinguicula moranensis var. neovolcanica from El Volcancillo, Veracruz
Pinguicula moranensis var. neovolcanica can be found in El Volcancillo, Las Minas de Ramirez de Vera Cruz, Mexico, 2400m.
Pinguicula Publications
Species type descriptions and other academic papers about plants from the genus Pinguicula…
Sub-Classification of Pinguicula Species
This sub-classification of the genus Pinguicula is derivated from Casper’s monograph (1966), Schlauer (1986), Luhrs (1993), Gluch (1995, 1997) and the world ...
Type Specimens
The name of a plant species is attached to what is called the TYPE specimen. This is the specimen which was described by the author…
How To Write Pinguicula Scientific Plant Names
The system of nomenclature used today is based on the binomial system of nomenclature, developed by Linnaeus in the late 1700’s. The binomial system of nomen...
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The Pinguicula from the Yucca Do Complex
In late 2002, A WORLD OF PINGUICULA have been contacted by Travis Wyman with a cluster of unidentified Pinguicula plants found in the Botanical Garden of Atl...