Who definitively described hibernation-like torpor in the common poorwill in 1948?
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Edmund Jaeger
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Who definitively described hibernation-like torpor in the common poorwill in 1948?
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Edmund Jaeger
Which plant family contains the Albany pitcher plant as its only living species?
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Cephalotaceae
Which naturalist is honored by the carnivorous plant genus name Sarracenia?
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Michel Sarrazin
What is the usual flower color of Pinguicula vulgaris, the common butterwort?
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Purple
What plant family contains the carnivorous bromeliad Brocchinia reducta?
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Bromeliaceae
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Which plant family contains the Albany pitcher plant as its only living species?
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Cephalotaceae
Which naturalist is honored by the carnivorous plant genus name Sarracenia?
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Michel Sarrazin
What plant family contains the carnivorous bromeliad Brocchinia reducta?
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Bromeliaceae
Which Nepenthes species is known only from Mount Kelam's granite cliff faces?
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Nepenthes clipeata
Which bladderwort had an 82-megabase genome reported in 2013?
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Utricularia gibba
Which Mexican butterwort grows in gypsum soils near San Luis Potosi?
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Pinguicula gypsicola
Which Heliamphora species was formally described by George Bentham in 1840?
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Heliamphora nutans
Which sundew uses snap-tentacles to catapult prey onto sticky tentacles?
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Drosera glanduligera
Which Bornean pitcher plant gains nitrogen from Hardwicke's woolly bat droppings?
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Nepenthes hemsleyana