List of Utricularia species

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There are around 215 species in the genus Utricularia, belonging to the Bladderwort family (Lentibulariaceae). It is the largest genus of carnivorous plants and has a worldwide distribution, being absent only from Antarctica and the oceanic islands. This genus was considered to have 250 species until Peter Taylor reduced the number to 214 in his exhaustive study The Genus Utricularia: a taxonomic monograph published by HMSO (1989). Taylor's classification is generally accepted, though his division of the genus in two subgenera was soon seen as obsolete. Molecular genetic studies have mostly confirmed Taylor's sections with some modifications, but reinstalled the division of the genus in now three subgenera.[1]

[edit] Subgenus Bivalvaria

[edit] Section Aranella

[edit] Section Australes

[edit] Section Avesicarioides

[edit] Section Benjaminia

[edit] Section Calpidisca

[edit] Section Enskide

[edit] Section Lloydia

[edit] Section Nigrescentes

[edit] Section Oligocista

[edit] Section Phyllaria

[edit] Section Stomoisia

[edit] Subgenus Polypompholyx

[edit] Section Pleiochasia

[edit] Section Polypompholyx

[edit] Section Tridentaria

[edit] Subgenus Utricularia

[edit] Section Avesicaria

[edit] Section Candollea

[edit] Section Chelidon

[edit] Section Choristothecae

[edit] Section Foliosa

[edit] Section Kamienskia

[edit] Section Lecticula

[edit] Section Martinia

[edit] Section Meionula

[edit] Section Minutae

[edit] Section Mirabiles

[edit] Section Nelipus

[edit] Section Oliveria

[edit] Section Orchidioides

[edit] Section Sprucea

[edit] Section Steyermarkia

[edit] Section Stylotheca

[edit] Section Utricularia

[edit] Section Vesiculina

[edit] References

  1. ^ K. F. Müller, T. Borsch, L. Legendre, S. Porembski, W. Barthlott: Recent Progress in Understanding the Evolution of Carnivorous Lentibulariaceae (Lamiales), in: Plant Biology, 2006; 8: 748-757

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