Utricularia caerulea
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Utricularia caerulea, the blue bladderwort, is a very small to medium-sized carnivorous plant
that belongs to the genus
Utricularia. U. caerulea spans a wide native range, including areas in tropical Africa
, Asia
, and Australia
. It grows as a terrestrial plant in wet, shallow soils over rock, in wet grasslands, in swamps, or near streams in open communities, mostly at lower altitudes but ascending to as much as 2100 m (6,890 ft). It was originally described and published by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.
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. U. caerulea spans a wide native range, including areas in tropical 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...
, Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It grows as a terrestrial plant in wet, shallow soils over rock, in wet grasslands, in swamps, or near streams in open communities, mostly at lower altitudes but ascending to as much as 2100 m (6,890 ft). It was originally described and published by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.
Synonyms
U. caerulea spans a wide distribution and is a very variable species, leading to a great deal of synonymy.- Calpidisca takenakai NakaiTakenoshin Nakaiwas a Japanese botanist.-External links:* * * by Yong Shik Kim and Mike Maunder from CURTIS'S Botanical Magazine, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Vol. 15: 141-146, 1998....
- Pelidnia caerulea (L.) Barnhart
- Utricularia albiflora Griff.
- U. albina Ridl.
- [U. baueri Benth.]
- U. bifida Macrae ex A.DC.
- U. caerulea var. filicaulis (Wall. ex A.DC.) Haines
- U. campestris Miq. ex C.B.Clarke
- U. capillaris D.Don
- U. cavalerii 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. charnleyensis W.Fitzg.
- U. complanata Wall.
- U. filicaulis Wall.
- U. filicaulis var. papillosa Pellegr.
- U. kerrii Craib
- U. nivea VahlMartin Vahl (botanist)Martin Henrichsen Vahl was a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.He studied botany in Copenhagen and in Uppsala under Carolus Linnaeus. He edited Flora Danica fasc. XVI-XXI , Symbolæ Botanicæ I-III , Eclogæ Americanæ I-IV and Enumeratio Plantarum I-II...
- U. nivea var. rosea (Edgew.) Trimen
- U. obscura R.Br.Robert Brown (botanist)Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and palaeobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope...
ex Benth. - U. obtusiloba Benj.
- U. ophirensis Ridl.
- U. paucifolia Benj.
- U. purpurea Willd. ex Benj.
- U. racemosa Wall.
- U. racemosa var. filicaulis (Wall. ex A.DC.) C.B.Clarke
- U. racemosa var. rosea (Edgew.) ThwaitesGeorge Henry Kendrick ThwaitesGeorge Henry Kendrick Thwaites was an English botanist and entomologist.Thwaites was initially an accountant and studied botany during his spare time. He was interested particularly in the lower plants such as the algae and the cryptogams...
- U. ramosa Vahl
- U. rosea Edgew.
- U. roseopurpurea Stapf ex GambleJames Sykes GambleJames Sykes Gamble FRS was an English botanist who specialized in the flora of the Indian sub-continent.He was born in London, the son of Harpur Gamble, M.D...
- U. sampathii Subr. & Yogan.
- U. sootepensis Craib
- U. squamosa Benj.