‘Striking’ pair of carnivorous plants discovered around mountain-top lagoon in Ecuador

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Two striking new species of carnivorous plants discovered in the Andes of Ecuador

A team of botanists from Ecuador, Germany, and the United States has described two new species of carnivorous plants with striking appearance. They are part of the butterworts (genus Pinguicula), a group of flowering plants with about 115 species that can catch and digest small insects with their sticky leaves. Whereas the majority of butterwort species is distributed in the northern hemisphere, these new species were discovered in the high Ande…