Entry for Utricularia Thonningii Stapf. Var. laciniata [family LENTIBULARIACEAE]
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 471, (1905) Author: (By Otto Stapf.)
Notes
M. Thonningii differs, so far as herbarium specimens go, from U. inflexa, Forsk., only in the presence of large hyaline auricles. Grant and Barter describe the colour of the corolla as yellow, but Thonning as white with purple streaks, which is the usual colour of the flowers of M. inflexa. On the other hand, there is a specimen of U. inflexa at Kew, collected by Figari in Lower Egypt, with the collector's “var. flore luteo.” Kamienski quotes numerous specimens of U. inflexa from Tropical Africa; those which I have had an opportunity of examining, possessed the characteristic stipules of E. Thonningii. As the auricles are easily overlooked in badly dried specimens, or break up and at length rub off, they may have escaped Kamienski's notice. In fact, the author quotes two of the specimens, enumerated under U. inflexa, also under U. Oliveri, viz. Kotschy, 201 and Barter, 3243. I have seen no specimens of U. Thonningii from outside of Tropical Africa.
