Utricularia delphinioides

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Utricularia delphinioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Lamiales Family: Lentibulariaceae Genus: Utricularia Subgenus: Bivalvaria Section: Oligocista Species: U. delphinioides
Binomial name
Utricularia delphinioides Thorel ex Pellegr.
Synonyms
U. delphinioides var. minor Pellegr.

Utricularia delphinioides is a small to medium-sized, probably perennial, carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. It is endemic to Indochina and can be found in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. U. delphinioides grows as a terrestrial plant in swamps and rice fields, wet grasslands, or open pine forests at altitudes from near sea level to 1,300 m (4,265 ft). It was originally named by Clovis Thorel but formally described and published by François Pellegrin in 1920. A variety, U. delphinioides var. minor, was also described in 1920, but Peter Taylor reduced the variety to synonymy under U. delphinioides because he discovered a continuous range of sizes between the larger and smaller forms, size being the only distinctive characteristic in the 1920 description of the variety.^[1]

[edit] See also

• List of Utricularia species

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