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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Carnivorous plants. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or add your name to the participant list below.

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[edit] Scope

This project is meant to provide a home for all work being done on Wikipedia articles related to Carnivorous plants.

In particular, this project aims to build quality pages on every family, genus, and species (eventually). Please see the list of carnivorous plant species and genera.

[edit] Participants

NoahElhardt - Working through various genus and species level articles whenever I find time.
Rkitko - I have focused on plants that are protocarnivorous or suspected of carnivory, such as Stylidium. I will continue to focus in that area and contribute elsewhere where possible.
NepGrower - Focusing on Nepenthes, of course. :)
Veledan — I intend to finish editing down and adding my new material to Bladderwort, then I'll offer assistance on the project to whatever article we're working on at the time
Polypompholyx — I wrote the main carnivorous plant article and recently rewrote Venus flytrap. I spend more time than is healthy adding taxoboxes, binomial authorites, APG data and journal references to CP articles.
Denisoliver In the German Wikipedia I started in 2004 working on CPs, meanwhile there exist more than 120 articles on them (check current count here), most articles on genera and some about species are FA/GA now.
JeremiahsCPs - I added lots of Nepenthes species photos -Jeremiah- CCPS
Yummifruitbat - I'll clean up and add detail to as many articles as time permits.
Petr Dlouhý - I made SVG distribution maps of CP familys and other on Commons. See Commons:User:Petr Dlouhý
Panama01 In the German Wikipedia I am focussed some Drosera, Nepenthes, Pinguicula and of the Sarracenia.
Flytrap_canada - I focus on nepenthes and sarracenia; will provide habitat photos wherever possible.
Fly_traper i do not have a perticular genus i focus on.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Collaboration

. The WikiProject Carnivorous Plants Current collaboration is Heliamphora.
Please contribute

Edit this page to make it better - add sections, details, etc.
Post comments, suggestions, or useful source material on the talk page
Upload pictures
Subpages (species specific) are being worked on too!
Invite other users to get involved

[edit] New Pages

This is a section where newly finished pages can be listed. This will allow for proofreading and review from other members, as well as recognition for hard work! This is meant mainly for the English WP, but feel free to post links to new other-language carnivorous plant pages here as well. That will help facilitate translation work.

Pameridea
Pinguicula ramosa - March 23, 2007
Drosera banksii, Drosera broomensis, Drosera bulbosa, Drosera burmannii, Drosera callistos, Drosera cuneifolia Mgiganteus1 18:26, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Pinguicula alpina - February 18, 2007
Brocchinia (former redirect, now article to include other species) - February 18, 2007
Protocarnivorous plant - February 17, 2007 (Finally!)
Nepenthes x tsangoya - February 7, 2007
Nepenthes x mirabilata - February 7, 2007
Droseridites - February 7, 2007
Fischeripollis - February 6, 2007
Saxonipollis saxonicus - February 6, 2007
Aldrovanda (turned redirect into article to accommodate extinct species) - January 27, 2007
Palaeoaldrovanda splendens (extinct species) - January 27, 2007
Archaeamphora longicervia (extinct species) - January 27, 2007
Nepenthes zakriana (new species) - January 19, 2007
Nepenthes naquiyuddinii (new species) - January 19, 2007
Nepenthes tenax (new species) - January 12, 2007
Nepenthes lingulata (new species) - January 12, 2007
Stylidium turbinatum - Jan 9, 2007 (stub)
Pinguicula moranensis (overhaul) - Jan 2, 2007
Stylidium repens - December 2, 2006
Byblis aquatica - December 1, 2006 (translated from de.wiki)
Nepenthes chaniana (new species, sort of) - December 1, 2006
Stylidium adnatum - November 30, 2006
Pinguicula potosiensis - November 23, 2006 (Translated by User:Denisoliver)
Nepenthes x pangulubauensis - November 16, 2006
Nepenthes x ferrugineomarginata - November 16, 2006
Sarracenia psittacina (stub) November 15, 2006
Sarracenia minor (stub) November 15, 2006
Sarracenia leucophylla (stub) November 15, 2006
Sarracenia alata (stub) November 15, 2006
Nepenthes x ventrata - October 31, 2006
Nepenthes x truncalata - October 31, 2006
Nepenthes x merrilliata - October 31, 2006
Nepenthes x sarawakiensis - October 29, 2006
Nepenthes x ghazallyana - October 20, 2006
Nepenthes x kuchingensis - October 20, 2006
Nepenthes x pyriformis - October 18, 2006
Nepenthes x cincta - October 7, 2006
Nepenthes x bauensis - October 6, 2006
Pinguicula gypsicola - October 6, 2006
Pinguicula laxifolia - October 6, 2006
Nepenthes jamban - October 6, 2006
Drosera intermedia - October 4, 2006
Nepenthes x trichocarpa - October 2, 2006
Drosera binata - stub - August 30, 2006
Utricularia amethystina - stub - August 28, 2006
Utricularia warburgii - stub - August 28, 2006
Sarracenia oreophila - May 20, 2006
Sarracenia rubra - May 19, 2006
Drosera madagascariensis - May 12, 2006 (Translated from de.wiki)
About 60 Nepenthes species pages. :) Mgiganteus1 22:25, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Drosera anglica - April 22, 2006
Drosera pedicellaris - April 16, 2006 (Translated by User:Denisoliver)

[edit] Article status and assessment

Carnivorous plant articles		Importance
Carnivorous plant articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA			1			1
	A	1	1				2
	GA		2	4			6
	B	2	3	1	1		7
	Start		6	5	4		15
	Stub		4	7	22	1	34
	Assessed	3	16	18	27	1	65
	Unassessed	0	0	0	0	201	201
	Total	3	16	18	27	202	266

This section displays the current status of assessed carnivorous plant articles within this WikiProject. For details on the assessment and "class" and "importance" scales, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Carnivorous plants/Assessment. For details on using the parameters within the {{Carnivorous Plants}} template for talk pages, see the instructions on the template's page or Wikipedia:WikiProject Carnivorous plants/Project banner. For browsing purposes, see Category:Carnivorous plant articles by quality and Category:Carnivorous plant articles by importance. Browse the subcategories (especially the "Unassessed-class" and "Unassessed-importance" categories to help assess our articles!).

[edit] Reworked/Completed Genera

Part of the goal of this project is to build thorough pages for each genus. These genera pages have been completed. Each could probably use some polishing up, maybe more refs, peer review, and then could possibly be nominated for FA status.

[edit] Partly Constructed

These articles contain a significant amount of info (beyond stub level) but haven't reached completion yet.

[edit] Featured Article

Nepenthes rajah is an insectivorous pitcher plant species belonging to the family Nepenthaceae. The plant has a very localised distribution, being restricted to Mount Kinabalu and neighbouring Mount Tambuyukon in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. N. rajah is famous for the giant urn-shaped traps it produces, which can be up to 35 cm high and 18 cm wide. These are capable of holding 3.5 litres of water and in excess of 2.5 litres of digestive fluid, making them probably the largest in the genus by volume. Sir Joseph Hooker, who originally described Nepenthes rajah, called it "one of the most striking vegetable productions hither-to discovered".

St. John (1862) and later Phillipps & Lamb (1996) observed drowned rats in a large pitcher of this species. The giant form of N. rafflesiana is the only other Nepenthes species documented as having caught mammalian prey. N. rajah is also known to occasionally trap frogs, lizards and even birds, although these cases probably involve sick animals and certainly do not represent the norm. Insects, and particularly ants, comprise the majority of prey in both aerial and terrestrial pitchers. read on...

[edit] Structure

The following are merely suggestions of how a page could be structured. Feel free to include what you like and move things about as you creat/edit pages.

Pages on the Genus level:

Taxobox
Intro
Description of plant characteristics. Include morphology, method of carnivory, flowers, size range, etc.
Distribution and Habitat
Cultivation
Taxonomy - include species list if short, move to seperate page if long.
References, further reading, and links
Small photo gallery showing variation within genus

Pages on the species level:

Taxobox
Intro
Description of species including distinguishing characteristics.
Distribution and Habitat
Cultivation
List of subspecies where necessary
References, further reading, and links

Important: Citing sources is important. Please cite specific sources whenever you can. Footnotes are a great way to do this.

[edit] Sample Pages

Genus Pages:

Drosera
Sarracenia

Species Pages:

[edit] Hierarchy definition

[edit] Dicots

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)
- Droseracaeae, (sundew family)
  - Aldrovanda, (waterwheel plant)
  - Dionaea, (Venus flytrap)
  - Drosera, (sundews)
- 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 carvivores, related to the sesame plant)
  - Ibicella
Oxalidales, (wood sorrel order)
- Cephalotus, (Albany pitcher plant)

[edit] Monocots

Poales, (grass order)
- Bromeliaceae, (bromeliad or pineapple family)
  - Brocchinia, (a terrestrial bromeliad)
  - Catopsis, (a borderline carnivore)
- Eriocaulaceae, (pipewort family)
  - Paepalanthus, (a borderline carnivore)

[edit] Photos

Eventual goal is to have at least one representative photo for every page. If possible, please upload new photos into the commons so that they can be used by others (ex. other language wikipedias)

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Carnivorous Plants

[edit] International issues

As carnivorous plants are a field of special interest, international cooperation can be of use. For example, there have already been translations from the German to the English Wikipedia and the other way round (Nepenthes rajah, Pinguicula, Drosera pedicellaris, Drosera etc.). International cooperation might fasten the production of new articles or reworking current articles through teamwork in parallel writing, exchange of literature and help in translating.

[edit] Cooperational offers from the German Wikipedia

User: de:Benutzer:Denisoliver

To finish the description of all CP-genus' by featured articles, the following articles need to be reworked in the German WP:

Maybe somebody is interested in parallelizing efforts on any of these articles?

The rest of this discussion was moved to the talk page

[edit] Projects

The following is the current status of carnivorous plant articles. Many of the B-level articles could be nominated for Good Article status with little or no revision. Some A-level articles are close to FA status. Many stubs, especially at the generic level, need to be expanded.

**Carnivorous Plant Article Status**
Aldrovanda					1			1
Category	FA	A	GA	B	Start	Stub	Missing	Total
Brocchinia					1			1
Byblis						1	6	7
Catopsis						1		1
Cephalotus					1			1
Darlingtonia				1				1
Dionaea				1				1
Drosera			2	3	3	6	160	174
Drosophyllum					1			1
Genlisea						2	20	22
Heliamphora					1	13	3	17
Ibicella						1	2	3
Nepenthes			1	4	9	105	11	130
Paepalanthus						1		1
Pinguicula		1			2		83	86
Roridula						1	2	3
Sarracenia		1			4		4	9
Triphyophyllum						1		1
Utricularia		1				4	117	122
Families and Overviews		1		1	5	1		8
Protocarnivorous plants			1			2	1	4
Botanical authors						2		2
TOTAL		4	4	10	28	140	409	595

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

Drosera: FinisheNoahElhardt 20:46, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Drosera pedicellaris: Denisoliver 17:55, 15 April 2006 (UTC) (~~I will translate this article from de~~ Done. Thx to Noah for fixing grammar and style.)
Stylidium: ~~Rkitko 21:59, 15 April 2006 (UTC) (Massive effort done today, but more to be done!)~~ ~~Applied for good article status~~Got good article status! I'm also beginning to create stub pages for notable species (see: S. scandens, S. tenellum, and S. kunthii for the beginning of my effort). Rkitko 07:41, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- Well done! :) -NoahElhardt 03:15, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Drosera tokaiensis: Fly traper 18:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

NeciFiX 00:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC) Hey, this is NeciFiX, I wrote the P. primuliflora page. Anyways, I heard of someone who is doing research into the Western Tofieldia, it grows in the same type of conditions as other CP's, and has sticky leaves. Possible carnivory may be involved! You guys should do some research. NeciFiX 00:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Invite template

Hello, WikiProject Carnivorous plants and thank you for your contributions on articles related to Carnivorous plants. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject Carnivorous plants, a WikiProject aiming to improve coverage of carnivorous plants and related articles on Wikipedia.

If you would like to help out and participate, please visit the project page for more information. Thanks! Rkitko 22:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Another template, this one can be added to the user talk page of anyone who contributes to a carnivorous plant article, encouraging them to join our team. To add it to a user's talk page, use the following text: {{subst:inviteCP}}

--Rkitko 22:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

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I created a userbox for this project. To add it to your userpage, just use the following text: {{User WikiProject CP}}

Feel free to fiddle with the color and/or photo that's used in the userbox! --Rkitko 07:39, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

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