Pinguicula moranensis is a perennial rosette-forming insectivorous herb native to Mexico and Guatemala. A species of butterwort, it forms summer rosettes of flat, succulent leaves up to 10 centimeters (4 in) long, which are covered in mucilaginous (sticky) glands that attract, trap, and digest arthropod prey. Nutrients derived from the prey are used to supplement the nutrient-poor substrate in which the plant grows. In the winter the plant forms a non-carnivorous rosette of small, fleshy leaves that conserves energy while food and moisture supplies are low. Single pink, purple, or violet flowers appear twice a year on upright stalks up to 25 centimeters (10 in) long. The species was first collected by Humboldt and Bonpland on the outskirts of Mina de Morán in the Sierra de Pachuca of the modern-day Mexican state of Hidalgo on their Latin American expedition of 1799–1804. Based on these collections, Humboldt, Bonpland and Carl Sigismund Kunth described this species in Nova Genera et Species Plantarum in 1817. It remains the most common and most widely distributed member of the Section Orcheosanthus, and has long been cultivated for its carnivorous nature and attractive flowers.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1576:

Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded the settlement of São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda on the western coast of Africa, now known as Luanda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luanda

1704:

English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their native allies began a series of brutal raids against a largely pacific population of Apalachee in Spanish Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apalachee_massacre

1949:

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented the first Emmy Awards to honor excellence in the American television industry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award

1993:

Five people were shot outside the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, resulting in two deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_shootings_at_CIA_Headquarters

2010:

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, en route to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut, Lebanon, killing all 90 people aboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_409

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

lose face: (idiomatic) To lose the respect of others; to be humiliated or experience public disgrace. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lose_face

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord, Wha struts, an' stares, an' a' that; Tho' hundreds worship at his word, He's but a coof for a' that: For a' that, an' a' that, His ribband, star, an' a' that: The man o' independent mind He looks an' laughs at a' that. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, an' a' that; But an honest man's abon his might, Gude faith, he maunna fa' that! For a' that, an' a' that, Their dignities an' a' that; The pith o' sense, an' pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, (As come it will for a' that,) That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth, Shall bear the gree, an' a' that. For a' that, an' a' that, It's coming yet for a' that, That Man to Man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a' that. --Robert Burns https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Burns