Common name: Butterwort
Family: Lentibulariaceae
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Country of Origin: Mexico
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
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Source: Jeremiah Harris
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- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: euasterid I
- Order: Lamiales
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- Family: Lentibulariaceae
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References:
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
- Pinguicula moranensis at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
- 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.
- Pinguicula moranensis at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Thursday, September 28, 2017.
- Pinguicula at WikiSpecies. Last accessed on Saturday, December 30, 2017.
- WCSP (2017). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Saturday, December 30, 2017.
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