Recently, an endemic insectivorous species new to science, belonging to Pinguicula sect. Agnata, has been detected in the Cajálbana region not far from La Palma, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba occidental, in the immediate neighbourhood of P. albida. The new species is named P. cubensis, described and illustrated.
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