page_title: Carnivorous plant
section_title: Dicots
hierarchical_section_title: Carnivorous plant / Classification / Dicots
caption_attribution_description: Byblis liniflora habitus Author: Denis Barthel
context_page_description: Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants have adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs. Charles Darwin wrote Insectivorous Plants, the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants, in 1875. Carnivorous plants can be found on all continents except Antarctica, as well as many Pacific islands.
  True carnivory is thought to have evolved independently nine times in five different orders of flowering plants, and is represented by more than a dozen genera. This classification includes at least 583 species that attract, trap, and kill prey, absorbing the resulting available nutrients. This number has increased by approximately 3 species per year since the year 2000. Additionally, over 300 protocarnivorous plant species in several genera show some but not all of these characteristics.
context_section_description: Asterales (sunflower and daisy order)
  Stylidiaceae
  Stylidium (trigger plants, a borderline carnivore)
  Caryophyllales, (carnation order)
  Dioncophyllaceae
  Triphyophyllum (a tropical liana)
  Drosophyllaceae
  Drosophyllum (Portuguese dewy pine)
  Droseraceae (sundew family)
  Aldrovanda (waterwheel plant)
  Dionaea (Venus flytrap)
  Drosera (sundews)
  †Droserapollis
  †Droserapites
  †Droseridites
  †Fischeripollis
  †Saxonipollis
  Nepenthaceae (tropical pitcher-plant family)
  Nepenthes (tropical pitcher plants or monkey-cups, including Anurosperma)
  Ericales (heather order)
  Roridulaceae
  Roridula (a borderline carnivore)
  Sarraceniaceae (trumpet pitcher family)
  Sarracenia (North American trumpet pitchers)
  Darlingtonia (cobra plant/lily)
  Heliamphora (sun or marsh pitchers)
  Lamiales (mint order)
  Byblidaceae
  Byblis (rainbow plants)
  Lentibulariaceae (bladderwort family)
  Pinguicula (butterworts)
  Genlisea (corkscrew plant)
  Utricularia (bladderworts, including Polypompholyx, the fairy aprons or pink petticoats and Biovularia an obsolete genus)
  Martyniaceae (all borderline carnivores, related to the sesame plant)
  Ibicella
  Plantaginaceae (plantain family)
   Philcoxia (recently discovered carnivorous genus feeding on nematodes).
  Oxalidales (wood sorrel order)
  Cephalotus (Albany pitcher plant)
caption: Byblis liniflora
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