Utricularia minutissima
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Description
Terrestrial.
Inflorescence erect, 3-12 cm long, glabrous or with a few short septate hairs on the peduncle;
Ovary ovoid, style short, stigma lower lip orbicular, upper lip much smaller, deltoid.
Capsule obliquely oblong-ovoid, 1.5-2 mm long, membranous in texture, translucent, dehiscing by a longitudinal ventral slit which is marginally scarcely thickened.
Seeds few globose, 0.17-0.2 mm long, testa smooth, reticulate, reticulations relatively large, ± isodiametric.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; India present; Malaya present; New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Australasia: Queensland (Queensland present), Japan present
India to China and Japan, Indo-China, Malesia, and Australia (Northern Territory and Queensland); in Malesia: Sumatra, Malaya, Borneo, Philippines, and New Guinea.
Notes
This species is very variable in overall and in flower size, and the degree to which the lower corolla lip is lobed. The peduncle varies from quite glabrous to sparsely hairy but the hairs when present do not extend to the calyx as in U. hirta. The 'rigid patent black bristly hairs' mentioned by PRAIN and often present are in fact not hairs but fungal growths.
Citation
SPARE 1940 – In: Mal. Nat. J.: 89
PELLEGR. 1930 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 480
SYMINGTON 1936 – In: J. Mal. Br. R. As. Soc.: 357
HEND. 1939 – In: J. Mal. Br. R. As. Soc.: 60
OHWI 1965: Fl. Japan: 814
VAHL 1895 – In: J. Bot.: 11
TRIMEN 1895 – In: Handb. Fl. Ceyl.: 270
PELLEGR. 1930 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 482
Ridl. 1892 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond.: 327
Ridl. 1915 – In: J. Fed. Mal. St. Mus.: 164
THW. 1860: En. Pl. Zeyl.: 171
SPECHT 1958 – In: Arnhem Land Exped.: 300
Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 492
Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 537
Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 493
OLIVER 1859 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot.: 190
P. TAYLOR 1968 – In: Dansk Bot. Ark.: 531
PELLEGR. 1930 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 481
PRAIN 1905 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 371
OLIVER 1859 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot.: 184
SUBRAMANYAM & BALAKRISHNAN 1960 – In: Bull. Bot. Surv. India: 347