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Family: Lentibulariaceae
Utricularia tenella

Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 432 (1810).

Synonymy: Polypompholyx tenella (R. Br.)Lehm., Bot. Zeit. 2:109 (1844).

Common name: Pink bladderwort, pink fan.

Description:
Inflorescence 2.5-13 cm high; flowers rosulate, narrowly obovate, petiolate, 3-10 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide; traps minute, rosulate among the leaves; flowers alternate, 1-3; pedicels filiform, 1-4 mm long; bracts and bracteoles basifixed, narrowly ovate, 0.5-1 mm long; outer calyx lobes obovate, c. 1.5 mm long; inner calyx lobes oblong, c. 1 mm long; corolla pink with a yellow margin to the palate, 3-9 mm long, the upper lip deeply divided into 2 narrowly deltoid acute lobes, the lower lip larger, deeply divided into 3 narrowly oblong obtuse or emarginate lobes; spur narrowly cylindrical, shorter than the lower lip.

Capsule globose, 1.5-2 mm diam.; seeds minute, globose, the testa conspicuously reticulate.

Published illustration: Erickson (1968) Plants of prey, pl. 16, 12 & 17, 22.

Distribution:  Wet heaths.

S.Aust.: EP, MU, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas. (Bass Strait Islands).

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.


SA Distribution Map based
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State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Not Applicable

Taxonomic notes: Hitherto, since Bentham, invariably placed in a distinct genus, Polypompholyx, with 1 other species in. W.Aust. However, for several reasons, especially the recent discovery of a species which is in some ways intermediate between the 2 genera it seems desirable to unite them.

Author: Not yet available


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