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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(Update on November 20 2010)

Carnivorous plant

Carnivorous plant (食虫植物)

Plants that derive, more or less, their nutrients (but not energy) from absorbing nutrients from animals represented by insects

Adaptation to grow in nutrient-poor habitats, such as bogs and serpentine rocks

Species in the world

Table 1. Insectivrous plants in the world (ca 550 species, 18 genera, and 9 families). Number of species in Japan is shown in parentheses. Genera without asterisks mean that all species in these genera are insectivorous.

Family属
ByblidaceaeByblis 2, Roridula 2
DroseraceaeDrosera 140 (7), Drosophyllum 1, Dionaea 1, Aldrovanda 1 (1)
LentibulariaceaePinguicula 70 (2), Utricularia 213 (19), Genlisea 20
SarraceniaceaeSerracenia 8, Darlingtonia 1, Heliamphora 6
BromeliaceaeBrocchinia *2, Heliamphora 6
DioncophyllaceaeTriphyophyllum 1
PedaliaceaeIbicella *1
NepenthaceaeNepenthes 75
CephalotaceaeCephnthes 1
References
  • carnivore
  • Darwin CR. 1875. Insectivorous Plants. John Murray, London
  • Darwin CR. 1888. Insectivorous plants (2nd ed., revised by his son, Darwin F). John Murray, London
    Reported 14 genera in six families

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