Utricularia caerulea

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Description

Terrestrial. Inflorescence erect, 5-30 cm long; Ovary ovoid, style variably in length, usually distinct, stigma lower lip orbicular, upper lip minute, deltoid. Capsule globose, c. 2 mm long, firm, opaque, dehiscing by a ventral longitudinal slit. Seeds numerous, obliquely oblong-ellipsoid, c. 0.3 mm long, testa thin, smooth to distinctly papillose, obscurely reticulate, reticulations elongate.

Distribution

Asia-Temperate, Asia-Tropical: India present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi absent), Australasia, Japan present, Kangean Is present, Lesser Sunda Is absent

India to China and Japan and Australia; in Malesia: not recorded from the Lesser Sunda Is. (but present in Kangean Is.) or Celebes, but otherwise widespread and common.

Notes

This is an excessively variable plant in which the extreme forms, often of quite distinct appearance, are linked by intermediates.

Citation

OLIVER 1859 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot.: 186

Merr. 1912: Fl. Manila: 433

BAKH.F. 1949 – In: Back., Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.), 8: fam. 194, p. 3

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 999

BACK. 1931: Onkr. Suiker.: 636

Clarke 1884 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 333

BURM. f. 1768: Fl. Ind.: 11

PELLEGR. 1930 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 485

SANTAPAU 1950 – In: J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc.: 217

Merr. 1937 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 73

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

VAHL 1912 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 247

PELLEGR. 1930 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 487

WIGHT 1850: IC.: t. 1584(1)

FORBES & HEMSL. 1890 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot.: 224

PRAIN 1905 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 373

BOERL. 1899 – In: Handl.: genus 559

P. TAYLOR 1968 – In: Dansk Bot. Ark.: 530

SPECHT 1958 – In: Arnhem Land Exped.: 300

Merr. 1927 – In: Lingn. Sc. J.: 167

SPARE 1940 – In: Mal. Nat. J.: 90

VAHL 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 466

BACK. & BAKH. f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 518

MELCHIOR 1929 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 383

BTH. 1869 – In: Fl. Austr.: 531

PELLEGR. 1930 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 486

STAPF 1917 – In: Gibbs, Arfak: 180

HAND.-MAZZ. 1936 – In: Symb. Sin.: 873

PELLEGR. 1930 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 487

A.DC. 1844 – In: DC., Prod. 8: 21

Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 538

PRAIN 1905 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 373

PELLEGR. 1930 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 485

WIGHT 1850: IC.: t. 1583

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

GAMBLE 1924 – In: Fl. Madras: 983

Ridl. 1923: p. 495. – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: f. 122

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

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

WIGHT 1850: IC.: t. 1582