Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Lamiales Bromhead
Family
Lentibulariaceae
Genus
Utricularia L.
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Utricularia dichotoma Labill. (1805)
 Description

Terrestrial herb; stolons very slender, bearing numerous short-stalked bladders ± 3–4 mm diam. Lvs few, deciduous, radical, (5)–10–20–30 mm long, narrow, linear to lanceolate or spathulate, entire. Scape very slender, ± 7–25 cm long, erect, (1)–3–4-flowered; bracts c. 1 mm long, broad-ovate. Fls subsessile. Calyx c. 2.5 mm long; upper lobe suborbicular; lower smaller, 2- or obscurely 3-toothed. Corolla pale purple with yellow eye, rarely whitish; upper lip truncate to emarginate, oblong-cuneate; lower lip c. 10 mm diam., ± semi-circular, broad, entire to 3-lobed; spur short, thick, obtuse. Capsule 4–5 mm diam., globose or nearly so.

[From: Webb et al. (1985) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4 as Utricularia novae-zelandiae Hook.f.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Utricularia dichotoma Labill.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Non-endemic)1
Total1
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