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Utricularia micropetala

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Isotype of Utricularia micropetala Sm. [family LENTIBULARIACEAE]
Holotype of Utricularia micropetala Sm. var. macrocheilos P. Taylor [family LENTIBULARIACEAE]
Isotype of Utricularia micropetala Sm. [family LENTIBULARIACEAE]
Isotype of Utricularia micropetala var. macrocheilos Taylor, P. 1963 [family LENTIBULARIACEAE]
Type of Utricularia micropetala Sm. [family LENTIBULARIACEAE]
Type of Utricularia micropetala Sm. [family LENTIBULARIACEAE]
Filed as Utricularia micropetala Sm. in Rees [family LENTIBULARIACEAE]
Isotype of Utricularia micropetala Sm. [family LENTIBULARIACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Utricularia micropetala Sm. [family LENTIBULARIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Utricularia antea
  • Utricularia cucullata
  • Utricularia lutea
  • Not on sheet cucullata
  • Utricularia micropetala Sm. micropetala
  • Utricularia inflata
  • Utricularia macrocheilos
  • Utricularia micropetala

Flora

Entry for Utricularia micropetala Smith [family LENTIBULARIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 471, (1905) Author: (By Otto Stapf.)
Names
Utricularia micropetala Smith [family LENTIBULARIACEAE], in Rees, Cyclop. xxxvii. no. 58. —DC. Prodr. viii. 19; Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 151; Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 101.
Utricularia cucullata Afzel. MSS. [family LENTIBULARIACEAE], according to Kamienski.
Utricularia inflata Afzel. MSS. [family LENTIBULARIACEAE], according to Kamienski.
Information
An annual, delicate terrestrial herb. Rhizoids capillary. Leaves mostly decayed at the time of flowering, scattered on the rhizoids, very narrow linear, obtuse, very gradually attenuated into the petiole, with it 2 1/2 lin. long, 1/6 lin. broad (only one leaf seen). Pitchers unknown. Scape filiform to capillary, erect or subflexuous, simple, up to 4 in. high; scales few, very minute. Flowers 2–3, remote; bracts ovate, acute, 1/2 lin. long; bracteoles subulate, shorter than the bracts; pedicels slender, with 2 narrow gradually widening wings near the tip, about 2 lin. long. Sepals ovate, somewhat unequal, closely nerved; upper larger, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, acuminate; lower acute. Corolla 5 lin. long (from the tip of the upper lip to the end of the spur), yellow; upper lip ovate, entire, 1 lin. long; lower lip subquadrate, undulate, 1 lin. long; palate flat, edge of the mouth ciliolate and with a small tuft of hairs in the front; spur conic, about 3 1/2 lin. long and up to 1 1/2 lin. wide. Style distinct. Immature capsule ellipsoid.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Afzelius!

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