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Order
Family
Genus
Classification
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Utricularia delicatula Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 561 (1906)
Description
Plant with very slender to filiform stolons bearing several bladders c. 2 mm. long. Lvs radical, soon falling, 4–6 mm. long, occ. reduced to scales, very narrow linear-spathulate. Scape up to c. 8 cm. tall, very slender to filiform, 1–3-fld; bracts minute. Fls subsessile, ± 5–8 mm. long. Calyx-lobes ± equal, suborbicular, ± 3 mm. diam. Corolla white or very faintly lavender-tinted; upper lip deeply 2-lobed, c. 6 mm. long, about linear-oblong; lower lip broad, entire, ± sinuate; palate not or very slightly thickened; spur ± 5 mm. long, minutely 2-horned at tip. Capsule subglobose, ± 3·5–4–(5) mm. diam.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Nov.–Jan.
Bibliography
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Relic]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Relic]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Relic]
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W. R. 1997: The reinstatement of Utricularia protrusa for New Zealand and an assessment of the status of the other New Zealand bladderworts based on seed characters. New Zealand Journal of Botany 35(2): 139–143.
