Utricularia livida
Utricularia livida
Utricularia livida is a carnivorous plant in the genus of the water hoses in the section Calpidisca.
Description
Utricularia livida is a herbaceous plant. Your rhizoids and stolons typically appear on numerous Scapus. Leaves are not always present or conspicuous enough visible. On Scapus they are arranged rosette- shaped, about the way they are scattered Stolin sitting. The leaf shape is linear to oval - spathelförmig, rarely reniform. Its length is from 1 to 7 cm, the width thereof 1 to 6 mm. The traps are numerous, ovoid, 1-2 mm long and stalked. Your mouth is always closed, the upper lip covers the lower doubled. Both lips are surrounded by star-shaped ground-breaking series of glandular hairs.
The inflorescence is erect, straight or curved and simple or branched above. Its length is 2 to 80 cm, the stem is glandular or smooth. The flowers appear singly, in pairs, up to eight or even fifty on the inflorescence. They sit with each other at intervals, rarely crowded tight. The scales are wenigzählig and similar to the bracts; the bracts are grown together at the bottom, oval, tapering or pointed and about 1 mm long. Sepals are irregular, oval, and 2 to 3 mm long. The corolla is purple, mauve or white with a yellow patch on the palate; in rare cases, the entire crown is yellow or cream-colored. The corolla reaches a length of 5 to 15 mm. The upper lip is formed and a half to twice as long as the sepals and narrow -oblong, its apex is rounded or truncated. The lower lip is circular, the palate has two folds which are transverse cusp -like. The flower spur is one and a half times as long as the lower lip, bulbous tapered and straight or curved. The seed capsule is spherical and about 2 mm long. The seeds are numerous and little - to 0.3 to 0.5 mm long, ovate and slightly edgy. Its surface is smooth or almost imperceptibly to significantly spotty.
Distribution and habitat
Utricularia livida is native to Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Somalia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, etc.) and Madagascar, but also in Mexico. It inhabits wet areas such as bogs and mossy rocks.
Systematics and botanical history
Utricularia livida is assigned to the section Calpidisca. It was first described about 1837 by the German botanist Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer. The specific epithet livida means " bluish ". With Utricularia Utricularia sandersonii livida is directly related.