Droseraceae
Dionaea

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

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?
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

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • 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

  • 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

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Kew Species Profiles

    • Kew Species Profiles
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0