Biology:Utricularia nana: Difference between revisions
From HandWiki
(over-write) |
(No difference)
|
Latest revision as of 08:25, 10 February 2024
Short description: Species of carnivorous plant
| Utricularia nana | |
|---|---|
| |
| Scientific classification Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination
| |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lentibulariaceae |
| Genus: | Utricularia |
| Subgenus: | Utricularia subg. Bivalvaria |
| Section: | Utricularia sect. Benjaminia |
| Species: | U. nana
|
| Binomial name | |
| Utricularia nana A. St. Hil. & Girard, 1838
| |
Utricularia nana is a carnivorous plant of the Lentibulariaceae family and is the only species in the section Benjaminia. It is native to the South American countries of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guinea, Brazil and Paraguay. It grows in swampy ground by streams and wet sandy savanna, from sea level to 1,250 m. The plant flowers between January and June.
It is a small plant, with few filiform rhizoids, which bear numerous short papillose branches. Corolla yellow.
References
- Peter Taylor (1989). The genus Utricularia - a taxonomic monograph. London: HMSO. ISBN 0-11-250046-3.
Wikidata ☰ Q7903111 entry
 |  |
