Utricularia bisquamata
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Utricularia bisquamata is a small annual
carnivorous plant
that belongs to the genus
Utricularia. It is native to southern Africa
, where it can be found in Angola
, Lesotho
, Madagascar
, Namibia
, and South Africa
. U. bisquamata grows as a terrestrial plant in damp, sandy or peat
y soils among mosses by streams or wet depressions at altitudes from near sea level to 1200 m (3,937 ft) in South Africa and up to 2250 km (7,381,890 ft) in Angola. It was originally described and published by Franz Paula von Schrank
in 1824.
.
Annual plant
An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers, and dies in a year or season. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed...
carnivorous plant
Carnivorous plant
Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants appear adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic...
that belongs to the genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
Utricularia. It is native to southern Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, where it can be found in Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
, Lesotho
Lesotho
Lesotho , officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country and enclave, surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. It is just over in size with a population of approximately 2,067,000. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The name...
, Madagascar
Madagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
, Namibia
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...
, and South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. U. bisquamata grows as a terrestrial plant in damp, sandy or peat
Peat
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter or histosol. Peat forms in wetland bogs, moors, muskegs, pocosins, mires, and peat swamp forests. Peat is harvested as an important source of fuel in certain parts of the world...
y soils among mosses by streams or wet depressions at altitudes from near sea level to 1200 m (3,937 ft) in South Africa and up to 2250 km (7,381,890 ft) in Angola. It was originally described and published by Franz Paula von Schrank
Franz Paula von Schrank
Franz von Paula Schrank was a German botanist and entomologist.Schrank was the first director of the botanical gardens in Munich from 1809 to 1832.Shrank was the first author to use the genus name Triops...
in 1824.
Synonyms
U. arenaria is an extremely variable species, which accounts for the amount of synonymySynonym (taxonomy)
In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that is or was used for a taxon of organisms that also goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnaeus was the first to give a scientific name to the Norway spruce, which he called Pinus abies...
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- Antirrhinum aphyllum L.f.
- Bucranion capense (Spreng.) Raf.
- Calpidisca capensis (Spreng.) Barnhart
- Linaria aphylla (L.f.) Spreng.
- Utricularia acicularis Sol. ex StapfOtto StapfOtto Stapf FRS was an Austrian born botanist and taxonomist.Stapf trained in Vienna, moving to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1890. He was keeper of the Herbarium from 1909 to 1920...
- U. brachyceras Schltr.
- U. capensis Spreng.
- U. capensis var. brevicalcarata Oliv.
- U. capensis var. elatior Kamieński
- U. delicata Kamieński
- U. ecklonii Spreng.
- [U. exilis Kamieński]
- U. exilis var. arenaria (A.DC.) Kamieński
- U. exilis var. elatior Kamieński
- U. exilis var. ecklonii (Spreng.) Kamieński
- U. exilis var. minor Kamieński
- U. lehmannii Benj.
- U. parkeri BakerJohn Gilbert BakerJohn Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
- U. rehmannii Kamieński
- U. schinzii Kamieński
- U. sprengelii Kamieński
- U. sprengelii var. acuticeras Kamieński
- U. strumosa Sol. ex Stapf
- [U. welwitschii P.Taylor]