CITES Carnivorous Plant Checklist - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Preamble
PREAMBLE
1. Background
The 1992 Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) adopted the CITES Cactaceae
Checklist as the guideline when making reference to the species of the genera concerned.
This was the first CITES plant checklist, which was followed by the publication of
CITES Orchid Checklist Volume 1, in 1995.
These references have proved to be an important tool in the day to day implementation
of CITES for plant species. The combination of support from the CITES Conferences of
the Parties, individual party States, scientific institutions and organisations has facilitated
the preparation and publication of the CITES Cactaceae Checklist (second edition), the
CITES Orchid Checklist Volume 2, the CITES Checklist of succulent Euphorbia taxa,
and the CITES Bulb Checklist. All of these works have been adopted by the tenth
meeting of the Conference of the Parties, as the guidelines when making reference to the
accepted names of the genera concerned. A number of checklists are in press, including
the CITES Checklist for Aloe and Pachypodium, and the CITES Orchid Checklist
Volume 3.
The CITES Carnivorous Plant Checklist is the result of co-operation between the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew (United Kingdom), the CITES Secretariat, and members of the
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Carnivorous Plant Specialist Group (CPSG).
The Atlanta Botanical Garden (ABG), USA and The Friends of the University Botanic
Garden, Bonn, Germany, provided financial support for the publication and completion
of the checklist.
The CITES Carnivorous Plant Checklist is based upon contemporary revisions for
Nepenthes and Nepenthaceae (Jebb & Cheek, 1997 & 2001), the World Carnivorous
Plant List - A Nomenclatural Synopsis of the Carnivorous Phanerogamous Plants
(Schlauer, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997) and expert knowledge of all three genera. This
checklist incorporates the largest collection of published synonyms for these three
genera. Further data, revisions, edits, and updates have been added during the
compilation of this list. This checklist is therefore up-to-date and should be useful for
many years.
The words ‘carnivorous plant’ is used here to represent those plants listed in the
Appendices that attract, capture, kill, digest, and absorb prey for nutritional benefit.
2. Methodology
The checklist was compiled in five stages:
• For each genus, data were extracted from the most recent taxonomic revisions and
compiled following the standard format for this checklist series. Extensive expertise
for Nepenthes was provided by Charles Clarke.
• Data for the IUCN Red List Categories (RLC) was provided for: Nepenthes by
Robert Cantley, Charles Clarke, Joachim Nerz, Heiko Rischer, and Andreas
Wistuba; Sarracenia and Dionaea by Paul M. Catling, George Folkerts, Cecil Frost,
Rob Gardner, Larry Mellichamp, Barry A. Meyers-Rice, and Donald E. Schnell.
• Nomenclatural issues were addressed by Patrick Perret (Switzerland).
• Draft accounts of each genus were produced and these were reviewed by the panel of
experts.
• The completed checklist was prepared for camera-ready copy using Microsoft Word
for Windows version 7 © .
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