Utricularia recta P. Taylor

Family Description

Insectivorous plants of wet places(aquatics,epiphytes or lithophytes).Leaves well developed and flat,in a rosette,or filamentous and much divided and inserted along stolons,sometimes bearing bladders.Flowers bilaterally symmetric.Calyx 2-lobed.corolla 2-lobed,the lower lobe with a basal spur.Stamens 2.Ovary superior,1-loculed.Fruit a capsule

Genus Description

Epiphytic,lithophytic or marsh herbs,or aquatics;perennial or annual.Rhizoids present;stolons present,bearing finely dissected leaves along their length,or leaves at base of scape,linear or differentiated into blade and petiole.Inflorescence a raceme or sometimes branched or reduced to a single flower.Bracts medifixed or basifixed.Calyx 2-lipped,lips entire,persistent,accresent in fruit.Corolla 2-lipped,the upper commonly smaller,the lower with a basal spur and expanded,often deflexed limb,with a basal 'Palate' often differing in colour,surround by marginal rim.Stamens 2.Fruit dehiscing by a lateral slit or circumscissile.

Species description

Slender?perennial,15-13.5cm,usually terrestial,sometimes lithophytic.Stolons short,filiform;bladders c 0.7mm,very scarce,inserted on stolons,blades to 11 x c o.5mm.Scapes 0.7-9cm,filiform,bearing 1-4(-8) flowers.Pedicel 2.5-5.5mm,slender,narrowly winged,ascending in fruit.Bracts to 2mm,basifixed,lanceolate to ovate,finely acuminate,hyaline.Calyx lobes subequal,lanceolate to ovate,finely acuminate,the upper wider,2.5-3.2 x 2.2-2.4mm,the lower 2.5-2.8 x 1.4-1.8mm.Corolla yellow;upper lip shorter than upper calyx lobe;lower lip deflexed,transversly elliptic,blunt,2.5-5.5 x 3.4-6mm,conspicuously swollen at junction with palate;rim of palte minutely ciliate;spur 3.5-6mm,curved,acute.Capsule ellipsoid,2.5-2.8 x 1,7-1.9mm,dehiscing by lateral slit;seeds c 0.3mm,brown,oblong in outline,+/-smooth.

Thimphu(Olakthang hotel), Paro(Chele la, Paro bridge), Bumthang(Lami gompa, Jakar, Shabjethang, Gyetsa), Trashi Yangtse(Dzong area), Gasa. 1400-3350m