Nepenthes Cultivars
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This list of ''Nepenthes'' cultivars is a comprehensive catalog of all
cultivar A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture, ...
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Nepenthes ''Nepenthes'' () is a genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus includes about 170 species, and numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids. They are mos ...
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International Carnivorous Plant Society The International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1972. It is the International Cultivar Registration Authority for carnivorous plants. As of June 2011, the society had around 1400 members. The ICPS is prob ...
(ICPS).Registered Cultivar Names: ''Nepenthes''
. International Carnivorous Plant Society.
The ICPS has been the International Registration Authority (IRA) for carnivorous plant cultivars since 1998. This list includes the 241 ''Nepenthes'' cultivars included in the ICPS's official list. This is by far the greatest number of cultivars of any carnivorous plant genus. The year in brackets is the year of first publication or, in the case of unpublished names, the year of its earliest known usage. Some cultivar names have been used more than once.


See also

* Lists of cultivars


References

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