OLD AND DIVERSE. “Today we recognize at least 583 species of carnivorous plants in 20 genera, 12 families, and 5 orders of flowering plants. Based on DNA sequence phylogenies, these species represent at least nine independent origins of the carnivorous habit per se, and at least six independent origins of pitfall traps, five of sticky traps, two of snap traps, and one of lobster-pot traps…these origins of carnivory appear to have occurred between roughly 8 and 72 million years ago (Mya).”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022