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Carnivorous Plant Names Database

Database Notes

World Carnivorous Plant List

Copyright © 1987-2020 by Jan Schlauer

Nomenclatural Synopsis of Carnivorous Phanerogamous Plants

by Jan Schlauer
Last update: October 2020
Horticultural entries and much editing by Bob Ziemer

General Notes

• The typical infraspecific taxa (autonyms) are not listed.
• The synonymical references apply to the autonymous form of the cited taxon unless indicated otherwise.
• The infraspecific taxa belong to the typical (autonymous) superordinate infraspecific taxon unless indicated otherwise.
• Syntypes are not tolerated, only one representative specimen is cited. This does not mean a lectotype is selected here.
• For some names the types could not yet be traced. Herbaria are abbreviated according to the Index Herbariorum: http://www.nybg.org/bsci/ih/ih.html
• "/" means pro parte (partly).
• "?" stands for any kind of incertainty.
• In some hybrids of horticultural origin the originator's name is cited; for natural hybrids the distribution is given. Formulae of artificial hybrids of known origin have the female (seed) parent before the hybrid sign (*), followed by the male (pollen) parent.
• Names of families are arranged in systematical order, names of genera, of species and of taxa of lower rank, incl. hybrids are arranged in alphabetical order.
• This list is constantly updated. If you have additions, comments or questions, please contact Jan Schlauer (jan@carnivorousplants.org)
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Geographic Abbreviations

Ala.	Alabama
Az.	Arizona
C	central
Ca.	California
E	east(-ern)
Fla.	Florida
Ga.	Georgia
Is.	Island(s)
La.	Louisiana
Mass.	Massachusetts
Mich.	Michigan
Miss.	Mississippi
Mo.	Missouri
N	north(-ern)
NC.	North Carolina
Nev.	Nevada
NJ.	New Jersey
NY.	New York
Ore.	Oregon
Penna.	Pennsylvania
S	south(-ern)
SC.	South Carolina
Tex.	Texas
Va.	Virginia
W	west(-ern)
Wash.	Washington
Wyo.	Wyoming

 

Other Abbreviations

in sched.	In schedis (on labels) in Herbaria or on plants cultivated and displayed at Botanic gardens
nom.cons.	Nomen conservandum (conserved name)
nom.dub.	omen dubium (the status of which is obscure)
nom.illeg.	Nomen illegitimum (earlier valid synonym cited in protologue or type typifies an earlier valid synonym or earlier homonym is based on another type)
nom.nov.	Nomen novum (new name if original name was not available, e.g. as a later homonym, at time of first publication)
nom.nud.	Nomen nudum (no valid description and/or no type)
p.p.	Pro parte (only parts of the specimen are type material)
spec.excl.	pecies exclusa (excluded species, belonging to another family or genus)
sphalm.typogr.	Sphalma typographicum (misprint)
|	Specimen deletum (specimen destroyed)
*	Hybrid sign (multiplication symbol)

 

Classification

The taxonomic basis for the subgeneric and sectional classification used in this database follows Schlauer (Carniv.Pl.Newslett.25:67-88, 1996) for Drosera, Fromm-Trinta (Bol.Mus.Nac.Rio de Janeiro, n.s. Bot.44:1-4, 1977) for Genlisea, Casper (Biblioth.Bot.127/128:1-209, 1966) for Pinguicula, and Taylor (Kew Bull. Add. Ser.14:1-724, 1989) for Utricularia, with some adjustments. No attempt has been made to subdivide the complex genus Nepenthes.

The entries are nested ranks of classification roughly corresponding to nodes on a phylogenetic tree, so it should be trivial for taxonomists of any flavour to map the classification used here to a system or theory of their choice.

The formal ranks used are:
Subclass-Order-Family-Genus-Subgenus-Section

 

Data Given For Cultivar Names

ICNCP	International Code for the Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants, 7.ed, Acta Horticult.647:i-xxi,1-123 (2004), ISBN 90 6605 527 8 http://www.actahort.org
Introducer	Person who introduced a formerly wild-growing plant into cultivation, by which it became a cultivar
Nominant	Person who coined the name of a cultivar
Registrant	Person who submitted a cultivar name for registration; in names published before 1998 this is the describing author
Translit.	Transliteration (given if the epithet was originally written in a language not using Latin characters)
Translation	Given if translations of the original epithet are in use
Awards	Awards received by a cultivar
Patents	Patents registered for a cultivar
Description	Publication reference to a cultivar description and (if available) text of description
Standard	Reference to a published standard photograph and (if available) link to a corresponding image
Propagation	Preferred method of propagation
Etymology	Meaning or derivation of a cultivar epithet

 

Floristic Provinces

General outline following A. Takhtajan (1986)
Floristic Regions of the World, University of California Press, Berkeley.

Floristic Province		Countries of occurrence
I. Circumboreal Region
1	Arctic	Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, Russian Federation, United States
2	Atlantic Europe	Andorra, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Faroe Islands, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway
3	Central Europe	Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Finland, France, Croatia (local name: Hrvatska), Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia (Slovak Republic), Ukraine
4	Illyria or Balkan	Albania, Bosnia and Herzegowina, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia (local name: Hrvatska), Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav republic OF, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Turkey
5	Pontus Euxinus	Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
6	Caucasus	Russian Federation, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan
7	Eastern Europe	Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Russian Federation, Ukraine
8	Northern Europe	Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russian Federation
9	Western Siberia	Russian Federation, Kazakhstan
10	Altai-Sayan	Mongolia, Russian Federation
11	Central Siberia	Russian Federation
12	Transbaikalia	Mongolia, Russian Federation
13	Northeastern Siberia	Russian Federation
14	Okhotsk-Kamchatka	Russian Federation
15	Canada incl. Great Lakes	Canada, St. Pierre and Miquelon, United States
II. Eastern Asiatic Region
16	Manchuria	China, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, Mongolia, Russian Federation
17	Sakhalin-Hokkaido	Japan, Russian Federation
18	Japan-Korea	China, Japan, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, Korea, Republic of
19	Volcano-Bonin	Japan
20	Ryukyu or Tokara-Okinawa	Japan
21	Taiwan	Taiwan, Province of China
22	Northern China	China
23	Central China	China
24	Southeastern China	China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Province of China
25	Sikang-Yunnan	China
26	Northern Burma	Myanmar
27	Eastern Himalaya	Bhutan, China, India
28	Khasi-Manipur	India, Myanmar
III. North American Atlantic Region
29	Appalachians	United States
30	Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain	United States
31	North American Prairies	United States
IV. Rocky Mountain Region
32	Vancouver	Canada, United States
33	Rocky Mountains	Canada, United States
V. Macaronesian Region
34	Azores	Portugal
35	Madeira	Portugal
36	Canaries	Spain
37	Cape Verde	Cape Verde
VI. Mediterranean Region
38	Southern Morocco	Morocco
39	Southwestern Mediterranean	Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, Portugal
40	South Mediterranean	DL, Algeria, Tunisia
41	Iberia	Spain, Portugal
42	Baleares	Spain
43	Liguria-Tyrrhenia	France, Italy, Monaco, Malta
44	Adriatic	Albania, Croatia (local name: Hrvatska), Italy, San Marino
45	East Mediterranean	Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey
46	Crimea-Novorossijsk	Ukraine
VII. Saharo-Arabian Region
47	Sahara	DL, Algeria, Egypt, Western Sahara, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Sudan, Chad
48	Egypt-Arabia	United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Iraq, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen
VIII. Irano-Turanian Region
49	Mesopotamia	Iraq, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Jordan, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey
50	Central Anatolia	Turkey
51	Armenia-Iran	Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
52	Hyrcania	Azerbaijan, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Turkmenistan
53	Turania or Aralo-Caspia	Azerbaijan, Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
54	Turkestan	Afghanistan, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, China (Sinkiang)
55	Northern Baluchistan	Afghanistan, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Pakistan
56	Western Himalaya	China (Tibet), India, Pakistan
57	Central Tien Shan	China (Sinkiang)
58	Dzungaria-Tien Shan	China (Sinkiang)
59	Mongolia	China (Sinkiang), Mongolia, Russian Federation, Kazakhstan
60	Tibet	China (Tibet), India, Nepal
IX. Madrean Region
61	Great Basin	United States
62	California	Mexico, United States
63	Sonora	Mexico, United States
64	Mexican Highlands	Mexico, United States
X. Guineo-Congolian Region
65	Upper Guinea	Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Togo
66	Nigeria-Cameroon	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the, Central African Republic, Congo, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Chad
67	Congo	Angola, Burundi, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Sao Tome and Principe, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, United Republic of
XI. Usambara-Zululand Region
68	Zanzibar-Inhambane	Mozambique, Tanzania, United Republic of
69	Tongoland-Pondoland	Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa
XII. Sudano-Zambezian Region
70	Zambezi	Angola, Botswana, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, United Republic of, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
71	Sahel	Burkina Faso, Benin, Central African Republic, Cote D'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ghana, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Chad, Togo
72	Sudan	Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Chad
73	Somalia-Ethiopia	Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia
74	South Arabia	Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen
75	Socotra	Yemen
76	Oman	Oman
77	South Iran	Iran (Islamic Republic of), Pakistan
78	Sindia	India, Pakistan
XIII. Karoo-Namib Region
79	Namibia	Angola, Namibia
80	Namaland	Namibia, South Africa
81	Western Cape	South Africa
82	Karoo	South Africa
XIV. St.Helena and Ascension Region
83	St. Helena and Ascension	St. Helena
XV. Madagascan Region
84	Eastern Madagascar	Madagascar
85	Western Madagascar	Madagascar
86	Southern and Southwestern Madagascar	Madagascar
87	Comoro	Comoros, Seychelles, Mayotte
88	Mascarenes	Mauritius, Reunion
89	Seychelles	Seychelles
XVI. Indian Region
90	Ceylon/Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka
91	Malabar	India, British Indian Ocean Territory, Maldives
92	Deccan	India
93	Upper Gangetic Plain	India
94	Bengal	Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
XVII. Indochinese Region
95	South Burma	BU, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Myanmar, Thailand
96	Andamanes	India, Myanmar, Thailand
97	South China	China, PI, Viet Nam
98	Thailand	Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand
99	North Indochina	Lao People's Democratic Republic, Viet Nam
100	Annam	Cambodia, Viet Nam1
101	South Indochina	Cambodia, Viet Nam
XVIII. Malesian Region
102	Malaya	Malaysia, Singapore
103	Borneo	Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia
104	Philippines	Philippines, Slovenia
105	Sumatra	Christmas Island, Indonesia
106	South Malesia	Indonesia, East Timor
107	Celebes	Indonesia
108	Moluccas	Indonesia
109	Papua	Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
110	Bismarck Archipelago	Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
XIX. Fijian Region
111	New Hebrides	Vanuatu
112	Fiji	American Samoa, Fiji, Niue, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna Islands, Samoa
XX. Polynesian Region
113	Micronesia	Micronesia, Federated States of, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Nauru, Palau, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying Islands
114	Polynesia	American Samoa, Cook Islands, Kiribati, French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Tokelau, United States Minor Outlying Islands
XXI. Hawaiian Region
115	Hawaii	United States Minor Outlying Islands, United States
XXII. Neocaledonian Region
116	New Caledonia	New Caledonia
XXIII. Caribbean Region
117	Central America	Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, French Polynesia, El Salvador
118	West Indies	Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bahamas, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Cayman Islands, Saint Lucia, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States, Saint Vincent and The Grenadines, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (US)
119	Galapagos	Ecuador
XXIV. Region of the Guayana Highlands
120	Guayana	Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
XXV. Amazonian Region
121	Amazonia	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
122	Llanos	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru
XXVI. Brazilian Region
123	Caatingas	Brazil
124	Central Brazilian Uplands	Brazil
125	Chaco	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
126	Atlantic Brazil	Brazil
127	Parana	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
XXVII. Andean Region
128	Northern Andes	Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
129	Central Andes	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru
XXVIII. Cape Region
130	Cape	South Africa
XXIX. Northeast Australian Region
131	North Australia	Australia
132	Queensland	Australia
133	Southeast Australia	Australia
134	Tasmania	Australia
XXX. Southwest Australian Region
135	Southwest Australia	Australia
XXXI. Central Australian or Eremaean Region
136	Eremaea	Australia
XXXII. Fernandezian Region
137	Juan Fernandez	Chile
XXXIII. Chile-Patagonian Region
138	Northern Chile	Argentina, Chile
139	Central Chile	Argentina, Chile
140	Pampas	Argentina, Uruguay
141	Patagonia	Argentina, Chile, Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
142	Tierra del Fuego	Antarctica, Argentina, Chile, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
XXXIV. Region of the South Subantarctic Islands
143	Tristan-Gough	Bouvet Island, St. Helena
144	Kerguelen	Heard and Mc Donald Islands, French Southern Territories, South Africa
XXXV. Neozeylandic Region
145	Lord Howe	Australia
146	Norfolk	Norfolk Island
147	Kermadec	New Zealand
148	New Zealand North Is.	New Zealand
149	New Zealand N South Is.	New Zealand
150	New Zealand S South Is.	New Zealand
151	Chatham	New Zealand
152	New Zealand Subantarctic Islands	Australia, New Zealand