Jardín Botánico de Matanzas - JBM

18/03/2026

"Flor y polinizador"
Sisyrinchium miamense:
Iridaceae nativa de nuestro país.
Y uno de sus insectos polinizadores.

07/11/2025

🔓 • 2025 :: panfetiae (Lentibulariaceae) • A New Butterwort from eastern Cuba
novataxa.blogspot.com/2025/10/pinguicula.html
DOI: doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.161641 🔓

Abstract
Background and aims – Pinguicula is a cosmopolitan genus of carnivorous plants with more than 100 species, most of them distributed in two centres of diversity: Europe and the Central American-Caribbean region. Fourteen species are reported for Cuba. During fieldwork to study Pinguicula populations in eastern Cuba, a white-flowered taxon, previously misidentified as Pinguicula albida or Pinguicula jaraguana, was collected in the mountainous regions of the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park. This taxon represents a new species for which we present a full description, a distribution map, illustrations, photographs, and a conservation status.

Key results – Pinguicula panfetiae is described as a endemic to eastern Cuba. It thrives on permanently wet, ferritic soils derived from serpentine bedrocks, on slopes above the banks of the River Toa in association with surrounding semi-arid montane serpentine shrubwood (charrascal). It differs from the closely related species, Pinguicula albida and Pinguicula jaraguana, primarily by its smaller rosettes with obovate, suberect to erect leaves, non-involute leaf margins, smaller flowers up to 1–1.3 cm including the spur, longer (0.6–0.7 mm) and wider (0.18–0.22 mm) seeds, and that it grows in full sun.

Conclusion – The newly described species increases the number of Pinguicula in the Cuban archipelago to 15. Pinguicula panfetiae is preliminarily assessed as (CR) according to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.




I. Pančo, P. Temple, et al. 2025. Plant Ecology and Evolution. 158(3): 382-391.
DOI: doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.161641

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