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Accession Data:

Pinguicula moranensis Kunth

  • subg. Pinguicula sect. Orcheosanthus

  • Common Name: Butterwort
  • Family: Lentibulariaceae Rich.

  • Country of Origin: Mexico
  • Habitat: Sheltered places, in poor soil or growing as an epiphyte or lithophyte.

  • Description: Leaves are covered by peduncular mucilaginous glands which entrap the prey and sessile digestive glands which secrete enzymes to digest the prey. The production of two gland types is costly and density of these respective glands is correlated to environmental gradients.4

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200900114
  • Source: Jeremiah Harris
  • Accession Date: 12-18-2009
  • Bench: 2309 - Temperate Carnivores
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 10-08-2018

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid I
  • Order: Lamiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Lentibulariaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2018
2017
2016

References (internal):

  • Carnivorous Plants
  • Plants used in EEB 2244 - General Ecology
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Mexico Central / Mexico Northeast / Mexico Gulf / Mexico Northwest / Mexico Southwest / Mexico Southeast / El Salvador / Guatemala / Honduras

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
  2. Pinguicula moranensis at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
  3. Images #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by Noah Elhardt (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
  4. Pinguicula moranensis at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
  5. Pinguicula at WikiSpecies. Last accessed on Saturday, December 30, 2017.
  6. WCSP (2017). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Saturday, December 30, 2017.

data regenerated on Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:25:05 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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Pinguicula moranensis

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Current Accessions in the Lentibulariaceae

  • Genlisea hispidula W/C
  • Pinguicula lusitanica
  • Pinguicula moranensis
  • Utricularia dichotoma
  • Utricularia gibba
  • Utricularia livida
  • Utricularia vulgaris subsp. macrorhiza W/C
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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