Utricularia aurea

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Utricularia aurea

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Description

Aquatic. Inflorescence erect, 5-25 cm long; Ovary globose, glandular, style relatively long, stigma lower lip orbicular, margin hyaline, ciliate, upper lip much shorter, margin glabrous. Capsule globose up to 5 mm long, relatively thick and fleshy, circumscissile, style usually greatly enlarged and elongated, often equalling or exceeding the capsule. Seeds numerous, lenticular-prismatic, 5-angled, 1.5-2 mm wide, very narrowly winged on all the angles, testa thin, obscurely reticulate, reticulations slightly elongate.

Distribution

Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: India present, Australasia, Japan present

India to China and Japan to Australia, throughout Malesia, common and widespread.

Notes

This very common species is very variable in size. The inflated rhizoids at the base of the peduncle () are sometimes very conspicuous but often absent.

Citation

BACK. & BAKH. f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 517

PRAIN 1905 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 368

Clarke 1884 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 329

Merr. 1912: Fl. Manila: 432

Roxb. 1860: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 246

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 997

P. TAYLOR 1968 – In: Dansk Bot. Ark.: 529

HASSK. 1855 – In: Retzia: 92

HEND. 1950 – In: Mal. Nat. J.: 336

TRIMEN 1895 – In: Handb. Fl. Ceyl.: 267

HEND. 1928 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 295

BTH. 1869 – In: Fl. Austr.: 525

Ridl. 1900 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc.: 119

SPARE 1940 – In: Mal. Nat. J.: 88

HAND.-MAZZ. 1936 – In: Symb. Sin.: 874

Wall. 1829: Cat.: n. 1568

Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 466

SANDS 1933 – In: Mal. Agric. J.: 175

FORBES & HEMSL. 1890 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot.: 223

MELCHIOR 1929 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 385

Ridl. 1911 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc.: 144

Merr. 1918: Sp. Blanc.: 351

PELLEGR. 1930 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 471

JACOBSON 1928: p. 112. – In: Trop. Natuur: fig.

BACK. 1931: Onkr. Suiker.: 633

HASSK. 1856 – In: Retzia: 92

OLIVER 1859 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot.: 175

BOLD. 1916: Zakfl.: 126

VAHL 1927 – In: Lingn. Sc. J.: 167

Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 491

Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 204

BOERL. 1899 – In: Handl.: genus 559

Bl. 1826: Bijdr.: 739

BOERL. 1899 – In: Handl.: 560

SANTAPAU 1950 – In: J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc.: 218

Ridl. 1893 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond.: 327

Merr. 1935 – In: Trans. Am. Phil. Soc.: 356

STEEN. 1936: Trop. Natuur Jub. no: 123: f. 20