Carnivorous Plant Newsletter

and Joe Mazrimas. Additional early editors included Leo Song and Larry Mellichamp. Since December 2006, all back issues of the Carnivorous Plant Newsletter are available as PDFs from the website of the International Carnivorous Plant Society. Articles older than 1 year are open to non-members. ==Format==

The newsletter publishes on a quarterly basis, in full colour, and totals around 130 pages annually. Articles of scientific interest must pass through an anonymous peer-review process before being published. Typical articles also include matters of horticultural interest, field reports, literature reviews, synopses of new literature, and new taxa or cultivar descriptions. The newsletter has been a registration authority for cultivars of carnivorous plants since 1979, and in 1998, was appointed by the International Society for Horticultural Science as the International Cultivar Registration Authority for new carnivorous plant cultivars. ==Review==

In a 1990 review published in the journal Taxon, Rudolf Schmid generally praised the publication, saying "over the past decade [it] has developed into one of the most attractive newsletters available, so appealing, in fact, that many libraries put the journal under lock". He also noted, however, that the lack of a contents page and the tendency to run articles over several discontinuous pages were "annoying". These deficiencies were rapidly corrected by the CPN editors. ==Taxon descriptions==

The Carnivorous Plant Newsletter has published formal descriptions of the following taxa. Drosera • Drosera camporupestris • Drosera grantsaui • Drosera hartmeyerorum • Drosera schwackei (new combination) • Drosera spatulata var. bakoensis • Drosera spatulata var. gympiensis • Drosera tentaculata • Drosera viridis • Drosera × corinthiaca • Drosera × fontinalis Heliamphora • Heliamphora chimantensis • Heliamphora elongata • Heliamphora exappendiculata • Heliamphora folliculata • Heliamphora hispida • Heliamphora sarracenioides Nepenthes • Nepenthes angasanensis • Nepenthes carunculata var. robusta • Nepenthes lavicola • Nepenthes longifolia • Nepenthes mikei • Nepenthes nebularum • Nepenthes ovata • Nepenthes rowaniae (emended description) • Nepenthes sibuyanensis • Nepenthes talangensis • Nepenthes tenuis • Nepenthes xiphioides Pinguicula • Pinguicula lithophytica • Pinguicula nivalis • Pinguicula pilosa Sarracenia • Sarracenia × bellii • Sarracenia × casei • Sarracenia × charlesmoorei • Sarracenia flava var. cuprea • Sarracenia flava var. rubricorpora • Sarracenia × naczii • Sarracenia purpurea subsp. venosa var. burkii f. luteola Cultivars The newsletter has also published a number of cultivar names. == References ==