Utricularia hintonii
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Utricularia hintonii is a small terrestrial carnivorous plant
that belongs to the genus
Utricularia. U. hintonii is an annual
lithophyte
that is endemic to Mexico
and is only known from the type location
about 160 kilometres (160,000 m) west-southwest of Mexico City
. It was originally collected by G. B. Hinton on June 10, 1933 and described as a new species by Peter Taylor
in 1986, who named it in honor of Hinton.
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. hintonii is an annual
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...
lithophyte
Lithophyte
Lithophytes are a type of plant that grows in or on rocks. Lithophytes feed off moss, nutrients in rain water, litter, and even their own dead tissue....
that is endemic to Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
and is only known from the type location
Biological type
In biology, a type is one particular specimen of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached...
about 160 kilometres (160,000 m) west-southwest of Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
. It was originally collected by G. B. Hinton on June 10, 1933 and described as a new species by Peter Taylor
Peter Taylor (botanist)
Peter Geoffrey Taylor was a British botanist who worked at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew throughout his career in botany. Taylor was born in 1926 and joined the staff of the herbarium at Kew in 1948. He published his first new species, Utricularia pentadactyla, in 1954...
in 1986, who named it in honor of Hinton.