International Carnivorous Plant Society

International Carnivorous Plant Society
Type 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
Area served
Global
Slogan Enjoying plants through cultivation... working to conserve wild habitat for the future... promoting research
Website www.carnivorousplants.org

The International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1972. It is the International Cultivar Registration Authority for carnivorous plants.[1] As of June 2011, the society had around 1400 members.[2]

The ICPS is probably best known for its quarterly publication, the Carnivorous Plant Newsletter.

Conservation efforts

The ICPS has set up the Nepenthes clipeata Survival Project (NcSP) to facilitate ex situ conservation of this species.[3] With only an estimated 15 plants remaining in the wild as of 1995, Nepenthes clipeata is the most endangered of all known tropical pitcher plants.[4] It is estimated that there are only three or four genetically-distinct lines of "white market" (legally collected) plants in cultivation.[3]

The ICPS partially funded the establishment of The Rare Nepenthes Collection, which aims to conserve four of the rarest Nepenthes species: N. aristolochioides, N. clipeata, N. khasiana, and N. rigidifolia.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ About the ICPS. International Carnivorous Plant Society.
  2. ↑ Baldwin, M. 2011. From the president. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 40(2): 43.
  3. 1 2 Cantley, R., C.M. Clarke, J. Cokendolpher, B. Rice & A. Wistuba 2004. Nepenthes clipeata Survival Project. International Carnivorous Plant Society.
  4. ↑ Simpson, R.B. 1995. Nepenthes and conservation. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 12: 111–118.
  5. ↑ Ziemer, B. 2010. Exciting conservation news: The Rare Nepenthes Collection project! Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 39(3): 67.

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