Pinguicula lippoldii
Pinguicula lippoldii is a carnivorous plant species of the genus fat herbs ( Pinguicula ) in the family of water hose plants ( Lentibulariaceae ).
Description
Lippoldii Pinguicula are perennial, herbaceous plants, whether they belong to the tropical - heterophyllous or the tropical - homophyllen growth habit type of fat herbs, is currently not say. They grow as indigenous rosettes, flowering they reach heights of up to 8, in fruit up to 10 centimeters. From her short rhizome go from numerous, comparatively strong roots. The rosette is made up of six to eight ( rarely up to twelve) simple, yellow-green leaves with oblong- spatulate to round outline together who have a length of 25 to 32 ( 40) and a width of 7 to 10 millimeters. The parallel, ganzrandigen leaf margins are unusually rolled down to the ground not to the top but a little. The leaf surface is densely covered with flattened equally seated as stalked glandular hairs, the approach of the sheet.
The one to two upright inflorescence axes 7-9 ( 4 to 10) inches high, approximately 0.5 mm in diameter, green to reddish occupied and weakly with seated and stalked glands, but later nearly bald. During flowering and fruiting, the inflorescence axis are almost completely upright. The pink flowers are terminal single flowers, double lip and without spur 15 to 22 millimeters long, its lobes are bent outward. The calyx is greenish to purple and slightly covered with glandular hairs. The upper lip is about 2.5 millimeters long and deeply three-lobed, the individual lobes are ovate, spatulate or oblong - round, its tip is rounded. The approximately 2.5 to 4 millimeters long lower lip is trimmed slightly at its tip or fine double perforated, the perforation extends to about one-eighth of the lower lip.
The pink crown is two-lipped, the lobes are rounded at the top and do not cover each other. They are of unequal length, the spatula-shaped to reverse- egg-shaped oblong- round middle lobe of the lower lip is around 12 mm length with 10 mm width is always much longer than the other way round - ovate oblong- round side (about 9 mm long and 8 mm wide ) and vice versa - ovate to spatulate upper (about 8 mm long and 7 mm wide ) cloth. The throat is finely hairy with multicellular hairs, at the end of which is a barely discernible capsule cell trumpet-shaped corolla tube is 7-9 (rarely over 5 ) mm long.
Dissemination
Pinguicula lippoldii is endemic in eastern Cuba in the mountain range Sierra Cristal and the Cochillas del Moa at altitudes between 600 and 1000 meters. It thrives there near watercourses in wet and rocky sites.
Systematics and Botanical History
Pinguicula lippoldii was first described in late 2007 by Siegfried Jost Casper based on herbarium specimens that had been collected in 1976 bites by a working group under John and previously determined as Pinguicula benedicta. The Style epithet honors Hans Lippold for its contribution in the study of Cuban flora.