Carnivorous Plants Website
Carnivorous Plants in the Wilderness
by Makoto Honda

 
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Bromeliaceae
     
Brocchinia (2)
      Catopsis (1)
   Eriocaulaceae
     
Paepalanthus (1)
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   Cephalotaceae
      Cephalotus (1)
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   Droseraceae
      Drosera (242)
     
Aldrovanda (1)
      Dionaea (1)
  
Nepenthaceae
     
Nepenthes (158)
   Drosophyllaceae  
     
Drosophyllum (1)
  
Dioncophyllaceae
     
Triphyophyllum (1)
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Sarraceniaceae
      Darlingtonia (1)
      Sarracenia (8)
     
Heliamphora (23)
  
Roridulaceae 
     
Roridula (2)
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   Plantaginaceae
     
Philcoxia (7)  
  
Byblidaceae
     
Byblis (8)  
  
Martyniaceae
     
Ibicella (2)
     
Proboscidea (2)
  
Lentibulariaceae
      Pinguicula (91)
     
Genlisea (30)
     
Utricularia (228)
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 Phylogeny
 
Classification
 
List of Species
 World Map

 

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   GENUS Nepenthes     FAMILY Nepenthaceae                            Tropical Pitcher Plants          158 species       Photography
   

     No. species        Locality                                                            List of Species by Name     List of Species by Date
     endemic / total

            4  /   5         Indochina (Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam)
            0  /   2         Thailand
            0  /   1         China

          11  /  37         Borneo 
          24  /  32         Sumatra
            8  /  15         Philippines
            4  /  10         Malay Peninsula 
            1  /   2          Java 
            3  /   9          Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) 
            0  /  10         Moluccas  (Maluku Islands) 
            0  /   1          Palau

            0  /  10         New Guinea 
            2  /   3          Australia
            1  /   1          New Caledonia

            1  /   1          Assam (India)
            1  /   1          Sri Lanka 
            1  /   1          Seychelles
            2  /   2          Madagascar

     Based on Kurata  Iden 26(10) : 43-51, 1972, Clarke 2001, Schlauer CP Database 2007, and others, with modifications.



The original data for the above presentation is based on:

Shigeo Kurata, Biology on Nepenthes, Iden 26 (10) : 43-51, 1972
Shigeo Kurata,  Nepenthes of Mount Kinabalu, Sabah National Parks Trustees, Malaysia 1976
Charles Clarke, Nepenthes of Borneo, Natural History Publications (Borneo) 1997
Charles Clarke, Nepenthes of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia, Natural History Publications (Borneo) 2001
Charles Clarke, A Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Peninsular Malaysia, Natural History Publications (Borneo) 2002
Jan Schlauer, Carnivorous Plant Database (http://www.omnisterra.com/bot/cp_home.cgi) 2006
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) 2007
and others, with modifications by Makoto Honda

     Distribution based on Kurata, Juniper et al, Clarke
 

Carnivorous Plants Distribution Map based on Juniper et al.(1989), Komiya (1994), Lowrie (1998), Schnell (2002), and others.