Re:_Pinguicula_ in AF

Jan Schlauer (Jan@pbc-ths1.pci.chemie.uni-tuebingen.de)
Mon, 15 Jan 1996 19:58:23 +0100

Dear butterworters,

Z. ZACEK wrote in CPN 24 (Dec. 1995):117

"No other species of the genus _Pinguicula_ grows in the African continent
except for this interesting and rather inconspicuous little butterwort..."
(_P.lusitanica_).

This is rather wrong because it ignores both, statements by CASPER
(Monographie der Gattung _Pinguicula_, 1966) who cites a specimen of
_P.vulgaris_ from Er Rif, Morocco (NW Africa), and myself (SCHLAUER,
Palmengarten 58:67, 1994) citing the same (from two locations) PLUS a
specimen (with picture, l.c.) of _P.grandiflora_ from the same range.

Specimens of these are deposited in G (!) and BC (!, if anyone wants to
check).

My tip (to authors and editors): please read at least the monographs before
you start publishing. TNX.

Kind regards
Jan