Wikipedia:WikiProject Carnivorous plants



Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Carnivorous plants. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or add your name to the participant list below.

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Scope
This project is meant to provide a home for all work being done on Wikipedia articles related to Carnivorous plants.

In particular, this project aims to build quality pages on every family, genus, and species (eventually). Please see the list of carnivorous plant species and genera.

Participants

 * User:SuperDuperBotanist
 * NoahElhardt - Working through various genus and species level articles whenever I find time.
 * Rkitko - I have focused on plants that are protocarnivorous or suspected of carnivory, such as Stylidium. I will continue to focus in that area and contribute elsewhere where possible.
 * Petr Dlouhý - I made SVG distribution maps of CP familys and other on Commons. See Commons:User:Petr Dlouhý
 * Plantphotographer - I'm new to wikipedia work, but know CPs well and should be able to expand entries, especially in the Utricularia descriptions.
 * Mikepellerin - I can help out anywhere.
 * Nightphoenix90
 * Jack O'Neill (talk) - Count me in!
 * Sarr Cat (talk) 01:53, 26 November 2014 (UTC) - Guess what "Sarr" in my username stands for! (Here's a hint!)
 * DevOhm - I'm all about sundews. Currently working on filling out subg. Bryastrum.

Inactive

 * NepGrower - Focusing on Nepenthes, of course. :)
 * Veledan &mdash; I intend to finish editing down and adding my new material to Bladderwort, then I'll offer assistance on the project to whatever article we're working on at the time
 * Denisoliver In the German Wikipedia I started in 2004 working on CPs, meanwhile there exist more than 120 articles on them (check current count here), most articles on genera and some about species are FA/GA now.
 * JeremiahsCPs - I added lots of Nepenthes species photos -Jeremiah- CCPS
 * Yummifruitbat - I'll clean up and add detail to as many articles as time permits.
 * Panama01 In the German Wikipedia I am focussed some Drosera, Nepenthes, Pinguicula and of the Sarracenia.
 * Flytrap_canada - I focus on nepenthes and sarracenia; will provide habitat photos wherever possible.
 * Fly_traper i do not have a perticular genus i focus on.
 * Kotare: I intend to add information on New Zealand species of CP's - ( Utricularia and Drosera )
 * KeresH: I live in Tasmania and have at least one species of sundew on my property.   I'm primarily intending to contribute photos of plants - as I find them in my travels.
 * Arioss - I added some of Nepenthes photos, especially cultivated ones.
 * User:llamadog903 - I love CPs and will help out in pretty much anywhere.
 * User:SunDragon34 - I'm in. I just like CPs and hope to make the CP articles better.
 * Nepenethutis - CP fanatic and I cultivate them.
 * Jonoaf - Primarily focusing on Sarracenia, Weekend volunteer at Meadowview Biological Research Station.
 * Agentrdy
 * Nepenthologist - I live in MA and focus on Nepenthes, but grow all kinds of CP's.
 * Esone
 * Mpaddock12--Mpaddock12 (talk) 18:36, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thefriendlyvan - Undergrad going into botany. I LOVE Nepenthes and Cephalotus, but carnivorous plant research in general is fascinating to me. Hoping to help with Nepenthes, but will do assorted research and information work wherever its needed.

Article alerts
This is a report on articles currently subject to a formal discussion. The listings may include nominations and reviews of feature or good articles, move requests, requests for comment, deletion discussions, etc.

New pages
This is a section where newly finished pages can be listed. This will allow for proofreading and review from other members, as well as recognition for hard work! This is meant mainly for the English WP, but feel free to post links to new other-language carnivorous plant pages here as well. That will help facilitate translation work.


 * Nepenthes berbulu - 19 February 2023
 * Nepenthes diabolica - 14 October 2020
 * Nepenthes fractiflexa - 22 February 2020
 * Nepenthes alfredoi - 10 August 2019
 * Nepenthes manobo - 10 August 2019
 * Nepenthes malimumuensis - 10 August 2019


 * Nepenthes biak - 10 April 2018
 * Nepenthes maryae - 24 April 2016
 * Nepenthes barcelonae, Nepenthes halmahera, Nepenthes weda - 23 August 2015
 * Nepenthes sumagaya, Nepenthes amabilis (disambig) - 7 January 2015
 * Nepenthes rosea - 27 December 2014
 * Drosera murfetii - 3 December 2014
 * Nepenthes armin, Nepenthes tboli, Nepenthes zygon - 25 November 2014
 * Steel trap (carnivorous plants) - 4 October 2014
 * Nepenthes amabilis, Nepenthes cornuta, Nepenthes pantaronensis, Nepenthes talaandig - 7 June 2014
 * List of Venus flytrap cultivars - 22 December 2013
 * Nepenthes abgracilis, Nepenthes cid, Nepenthes extincta, Nepenthes kitanglad, Nepenthes kurata, Nepenthes leyte - 15 December 2013
 * Nepenthes ultra - 3 November 2013
 * Nepenthes viridis - 22 October 2013
 * Nepenthes samar - 14 September 2013
 * Nepenthes graciliflora - 28 August 2013
 * Nepenthes negros - 28 August 2013
 * Nepenthes ramos - 6 July 2013
 * Nepenthes alzapan - 6 July 2013
 * Nepenthes blancoi (disambig) - 11 February 2013
 * Nepenthes abalata - 10 February 2013
 * Distribution of Heliamphora - 23 January 2013


 * Archive of new pages list
 * 2012
 * 2011
 * 2010
 * 2009
 * 2008
 * 2007
 * 2006

Recently expanded pages

 * Nepenthes abgracilis - 23 September 2014
 * Nepenthes robcantleyi - 26 December 2013
 * Nepenthes viridis - 9 November 2013
 * Nepenthes hemsleyana (previously Nepenthes baramensis) - 6 July 2013

Article status and assessment
This section displays the current status of assessed carnivorous plant articles within this WikiProject. For details on the assessment and "class" and "importance" scales, please see WikiProject Carnivorous plants/Assessment. For details on using the parameters within the Carnivorous Plants template for talk pages, see the instructions on the template's page or WikiProject Carnivorous plants/Project banner. For browsing purposes, see Category:Carnivorous plant articles by quality and Category:Carnivorous plant articles by importance. Browse the subcategories (especially the "Unassessed class" and "Unknown-importance" categories to help assess our articles!).

See also:
 * The bot-maintained Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Carnivorous plant articles by quality.
 * Grading scheme
 * WikiProject Carnivorous plants/Grading (kept for historical reasons)

Featured article


Featured article Drosera regia, commonly known as the king sundew, is a carnivorous plant in the sundew genus Drosera and is endemic to a single valley in South Africa. The genus name Drosera comes from the Greek word droseros, meaning "dew-covered". The specific epithet regia is derived from the Latin for "royal", a reference to the "striking appearance" of the species. Individual leaves can reach 70 cm in length. It has many unusual relict characteristics not found in most other Drosera species, including woody rhizomes, operculate pollen, and the lack of circinate vernation in scape growth. All of these factors, combined with molecular data from phylogenetic analysis, contribute to the evidence that D. regia possesses some of the most ancient characteristics within the genus. Some of these are shared with the related Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), which suggests a close evolutionary relationship. read on...

Structure
The following are merely suggestions of how a page could be structured. Feel free to include what you like and move things about as you create/edit pages.
 * Taxobox
 * Introduction
 * Description of plant characteristics. Include morphology, method of carnivory, flowers, size, etc.
 * Distribution and Habitat
 * Taxonomy and/or botanical history - include relationship to subtaxa, or closely related sister species.
 * Cultivation
 * References, further reading, and links

Important: Citing sources is important. Please cite specific sources whenever you can. Footnotes are a great way to do this.

Dicots

 * Asterales, (sunflower and daisy order)
 * Stylidiaceae
 * Stylidium, (trigger plants, a borderline carnivore)
 * Caryophyllales, (carnation order)
 * Dioncophyllaceae
 * Triphyophyllum, (a tropical liana)
 * Drosophyllaceae
 * Drosophyllum, (Portuguese dewy pine)
 * Droseracaeae, (sundew family)
 * Aldrovanda, (waterwheel plant)
 * Dionaea (plant), (Venus flytrap)
 * Drosera, (sundews)
 * Nepenthaceae, (tropical pitcher-plant family)
 * Nepenthes, (tropical pitcher plants or monkey-cups, including Anurosperma)


 * Ericales (heather order)
 * Roridulaceae
 * Roridula, (a borderline carnivore)
 * Sarraceniaceae (trumpet pitcher family)
 * Sarracenia, (North American trumpet pitchers)
 * Darlingtonia, (cobra plant/lily)
 * Heliamphora, (sun or marsh pitchers)


 * Lamiales, (mint order)
 * Byblidaceae
 * Byblis, (rainbow plants)
 * Lentibulariaceae, (bladderwort family)
 * Pinguicula, (butterworts)
 * Genlisea, (corkscrew plant)
 * Utricularia, (bladderworts, including Polypompholyx, the fairy aprons or pink petticoats and Biovularia an obsolete genus)
 * Martyniaceae, (all borderline carvivores, related to the sesame plant)
 * Ibicella
 * Oxalidales, (wood sorrel order)
 * Cephalotus, (Albany pitcher plant)

Monocots

 * Poales, (grass order)
 * Bromeliaceae, (bromeliad or pineapple family)
 * Brocchinia, (a terrestrial bromeliad)
 * Catopsis, (a borderline carnivore)
 * Eriocaulaceae, (pipewort family)
 * Paepalanthus, (a borderline carnivore)

Photos
Eventual goal is to have at least one representative photo for every page. If possible, please upload new photos into the commons so that they can be used by others (ex. other language wikipedias)

International issues
As carnivorous plants are a field of special interest, international cooperation can be of use. For example, there have already been translations from the German to the English Wikipedia and the other way round (Nepenthes rajah, Pinguicula, Drosera pedicellaris, Drosera etc.). International cooperation might fasten the production of new articles or reworking current articles through teamwork in parallel writing, exchange of literature and help in translating.

Cooperational offers from the German Wikipedia
User: de:Benutzer:Denisoliver

To finish the description of all CP-genus' by featured articles, the following articles need to be reworked in the German WP:


 * Heliamphora de:Sumpfkrüge
 * Roridula de:Wanzenpflanzen

Maybe somebody is interested in parallelizing efforts on any of these articles?

The rest of this discussion was moved to the talk page

Related WikiProjects
The following WikiProjects may deal with information useful or relating to this WikiProject


 * WikiProject Tree of Life
 * WikiProject Plants
 * WikiProject Ecology
 * WikiProject Ecoregions

Categories
Choose appropriate categories starting new pages:


 * Category:Carnivorous plants (contains subcategories by geographical region)
 * Category:Droseraceae
 * Category:Lentibulariaceae
 * Category:Nepenthes
 * Category:Sarraceniaceae

Lists

 * List of carnivorous plants
 * List of Drosera species
 * see also: Taxonomy of Drosera
 * List of Nepenthes cultivars
 * List of Nepenthes natural hybrids
 * List of Nepenthes species
 * List of Nepenthes species by distribution
 * see also: Taxonomy of Nepenthes
 * List of Pinguicula species
 * List of Utricularia species
 * List of Sarracenia species and hybrids
 * List of Stylidium species
 * List of Venus flytrap cultivars

Templates
Project template to be placed on the article's talk page: WikiProject Carnivorous plants

Invite template
Another template, this one can be added to the user talk page of anyone who contributes to a carnivorous plant article, encouraging them to join our team. To add it to a user's talk page, use the following text:  

--Rkitko 22:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Userbox
I created a userbox for this project. To add it to your userpage, just use the following text:  

Feel free to fiddle with the color and/or photo that's used in the userbox! --Rkitko 07:39, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I made one, too. To add this to your userpage, use the text  

If you want to improve it, go right ahead! SunDragon34 (talk) 05:52, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

And I have made one as well! I simply didn't like the others... feel free to ad this to your own user page with  

Sarr Cat (talk) 01:46, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Resources
Darwin, C. Insectivorous plants. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1875 (First published London, John Murray, 1875).]
 * [http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F1217&viewtype=text&pageseq=1
 * More than 5000 free images of carnivorous plants

Collaboration
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