Dionaea muscipula J.Ellis
First published in Nova Acta Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal., ser. 2, 1: 98 (1773)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. North Carolina to E. South Carolina. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
North Carolina, South Carolina
Introduced into:
Alabama, California, Florida, Jamaica, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington
Synonyms
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Dionaea corymbosa Raf. in Med. Fl. 2: 217 (1830)
- Dionaea sensitiva Salisb. in Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 321 (1796)
- Dionaea sessiliflora Raf. in Med. Fl. 2: 217 (1830)
- Dionaea uniflora Raf. in Atlantic J. 1: 78 (1832)
- Drosera sessiliflora Raf. in Atlantic J. 1: 148 (1832)
- Drosera uniflora Raf. in Atlantic J. 1: 148 (1832), nom. illeg.
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2015). Flora of North America North of Mexico 6: 1-468. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Kew Species Profiles
- Chase, M. W., Christenhusz, M. J. M., Sanders, D. & Fay, M. F. (2009). Murderous plants: Victorian Gothic, Darwin and modern insights into vegetable carnivory. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161: 329-356.
- Kreher, B., Neszmélyi, A. & Wagner, H. (1990). Naphthoquinones from Dionaea muscipula. Phytochemistry 29: 605-606.
- Lucas, G. & Synge, H. (comps) (1978). The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. IUCN, Morges [later Gland], Switzerland.
- Mabberley, D. J. (2008). Mabberley’s Plant-book: a Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses. 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- NatureServe – Dionaea muscipula.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (2010). Dionaea muscipul a. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2015). Flora of North America North of Mexico 6: 1-468. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Hunt, D.R. [6134], Brazil | Drosera sessiliflora | K001204913 | Yes | ||
Pres, M.J. [1688], Brazil | Drosera sessiliflora | K001204921 | Yes | ||
Ule, E. [8126], Brazil | Drosera sessiliflora | K001204918 | Yes | ||
Hunt, D.R. [5829], Brazil | Drosera sessiliflora | K001204916 | Yes | ||
Prance, G.T. [9210], Brazil | Drosera sessiliflora | K001204917 | Yes | ||
Argent, G.C. [6457], Brazil | Drosera sessiliflora | K001204915 | Yes | ||
Hunt, D.R. [s.n.], Brazil | Drosera sessiliflora | K001204919 | Yes | ||
s.coll. [21120], Brazil | Drosera sessiliflora | K001204920 | Yes | ||
Smith, D. [221], Brazil | Drosera sessiliflora | K001204914 | Yes |
Sources
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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IUCN Categories
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images
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Kew Species Profiles
- Kew Species Profiles
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0