List of Pinguicula species


The genus Pinguicula contains the 126 species of butterworts, belonging to the bladderwort family. Species are distributed across the subarctic and temperate Northern Hemisphere, in the tropical Americas from Mexico to Bolivia, and to southern Argentina and central and southern Chile. Over half of the species are concentrated in Mexico and Central America.

Accepted species

126 species are currently accepted by Plants of the World Online.

Casper's subgeneric classification

Siegfried Jost Casper systematically divided them into three subgenera with 15 sections. Subsequent phylogenetic research showed that many of these groupings are polyphyletic, but they are used below.

Subgenus ''Isoloba''

Section ''Agnata''

Section ''Cardiophyllum''

Section ''Discoradix''

Section ''Heterophyllum''

Section ''Isoloba''

Subgenus ''Pinguicula''

Section ''Crassifolia''

Section ''Homophyllum''

Section ''Longitubus''

Section ''Nana''

  • Pinguicula villosa – hairy butterwort

Section ''Orcheosanthus''

Section ''Orchidioides''

Section ''Pinguicula''

Subgenus ''Temnoceras''

Section ''Ampullipalatum''

  • Pinguicula antarctica
  • Pinguicula calyptrata
  • Pinguicula chilensis
  • Pinguicula involuta
  • Pinguicula jimburensis
  • Pinguicula elongata
  • ''Pinguicula ombrophilia''

Section ''Micranthus''

Section ''Temnoceras''

  • Pinguicula clivorum
  • Pinguicula crenatiloba
  • Pinguicula emarginata
  • Pinguicula gracilis
  • ''Pinguicula immaculata''

''Incertae sedis''