Pinguicula gypsicola

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iPinguicula gypsicola
In situ with Selaginella
In situ with Selaginella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lentibulariaceae
Genus: Pinguicula
Species: P. gypsicola
Binomial name
Pinguicula gypsicola
Brandeg., 1911
species location
species location

Pinguicula gypsicola is an insectivorous plant of the genus Pinguicula native to the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, a heterophyllous member of the section Orcheosanthus. It grows in gypsum soils and forms stemless rosettes of upright, narrow leaves.

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[edit] Morphology

P. gypsicola is a perennial rosetted herb. It is heterophyllous, bearing upright, narrow carnivorous leaves with backward bending margins in the summer, and a tight rosette of small, hairy, non-carnivorous leaves in the winter. As is typical for Pinguicula, the carnivorous leaves are densely covered with stalked mucilagenous and sessile digestive glands, which serve to trap and digest insect prey and absorb the resulting nutrient mixture to supplement their nitrate-low environment. The carnivorous leaves of this species are bright green to reddish and grow up to 6.5 cm. long.

The 2 cm flowers are purple and are born singly on 9 cm inflorescences. They bloom when the start of summer rains triggers summer growth in June or July.

[edit] Distribution and habitat

P. gypsicola is known only from a few areas near its type location west of the city of San Luis Potosi. It grows in gypsum slopes accompanied by other xerophytic vegetation such as Cactaceae, Agave stricta, Selaginella cuspidata, Agave striata, Dasylirion longissimum, Dodonea viscosa and Hechtia glomerata.[1]

[edit] Botanical history

Pinguicula gypsicola was first described in 1911 by Townshend Stith Brandegee (1843-1925), a botanist from California.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Casper SJ (1966). Monographie der Gattung Pinguicula L. (Heft 127/128, Vol 31). Stuttgart: Bibliotheca Botanica.

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