Utricularia scandens
Content
Description
Terrestrial.
Inflorescence twining, 3-35 cm long;
Ovary ovoid, style short, indistinct, stigma lower lip semi-orbicular, upper lip similar, smaller.
Capsule oblong-ovoid, dorsiventrally compressed, membranous, 2-2.5 mm long, dehiscing by a single ventral longitudinal marginally thickened slit.
Seeds numerous, broadly ellipsoid or ovoid, c. 0.2 mm long, testa thin, smooth, reticulate, reticulations elongate, hilum lateral, prominent.
Distribution
Aru Is present, Asia-Tropical: India present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); New Guinea present, G. Ledang present, Madagascar present, N. Australia present, South Africa present, Tropical Africa present
Tropical Africa, South Africa, Madagascar, India, Indo-China, through Malesia to N. Australia; in Malesia: a single record from Malay Peninsula (G. Ledang) and more widespread in New Guinea and the adjacent Aru Is.
Citation
GAMBLE 1924 – In: Fl. Madras: 982
PELLEGR. 1930 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 484
Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 493
PRAIN 1905 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 371
SPARE 1940 – In: Mal. Nat. J.: 89
P. TAYLOR 1968 – In: Dansk Bot. Ark.: 531
P. TAYLOR 1964 – In: Kew Bull.: 46
OLIVER 1859 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Lond. Bot.: 182
Clarke 1884 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 332
PERRIER 1955 – In: Humbert, Fl. Madag., Lentib.: 19