Utricularia reniformis

Utricularia reniformis

Utricularia reniformis is a species of the genus of the water hoses ( Utricularia ). This carnivorous plant grows exclusively in the southern Brazilian coastal mountains.

Description

Vegetative characteristics

Utricularia reniformis growing both terrestrial and epiphytic. It has quite a large fan leaves for Utricularia species. The leaves consist of an up to 30 cm long petiole and a kidney-shaped with a diameter of up to 14 cm leaf blade. The traps are 0.7 to 1.5 mm in size and are densely covered by glands. They have two unbranched dorsal appendage.

Generative features

At up to 1 m long inflorescence are 3 to 14 4 cm large flowers. The palate of violet-blue corolla is characterized by two golden yellow, striped juice times, which are surrounded by red-violet edges.

Occurrence

Utricularia reniformis grows exclusively in southern Brazil coastal mountains. There you will find, for example, in the Organ Mountains on Mt Itatiaia quite numerous.

Utricularia reniformis thrives in coastal mountain ranges in altitude 750-1900 meters. It grows in permanently wet grass formations surrounded by tussock grasses.

System

Utricularia reniformis was first described by Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint -Hilaire in 1830. Utricularia reniformis belongs to the section Orchidioides in the subgenus Utricularia within the genus Utricularia

Swell

• Barthlott, Porembski, Seine, Theisen: carnivores, biology and culture of carnivorous plants, Eugen Ulmer GmbH & Co. Stuttgart 2004 ISBN 3-8001-4144-2