Utricularia hispida Lam.

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1967. The botany of the Guayana Highland--Part VII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 17: 1-439.

  • Family

    Lentibulariaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Utricularia hispida Lam.

  • Description

    Distribution and Ecology - Damp savannas, usually at low altitudes, British Honduras, Nicaragua, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, British and French Guiana, Suriname and Northern Brazil. This extremely variable species is common on low altitude savannas but the specimens cited by Steyermark from 1830-1920 m, and 1065 m on Alt. Roraima are undoubtedly this species. The leaves are usually linear or narrowly linear but on Maguire, Schulz, Soderstrom & Holmgren 54167 and 54269 from Suriname, Wilhelmina Gebergte, alt 225 and 275 m, some of the leaves (apparently those produced first) are obovate-spathulate. Corolla color is recorded as white, yellow, violet or purple or various combinations of these colors and there is also great variation in flower size, the degree to which the calyx-margin is crenulate and to which the bract margin is ciliate-dentate. The scape base varies from densely hispid to quite glabrous.

  • Discussion

    Utricularia angustifolia Benj., Linnaea 20: 311. 1847. Type. Suriname, Hoslmann 804 (K).

    Utricularia glueckii Luetzelberg, Flora 100: 190. 1910. Type. Trinidad, Aripo Savannah, collector not named (?M).

    Utricularia macerrima Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 52: 89. 1917. Type. British Honduras. Peck 222 (K).

    Type. 'Cayenne’ in Herb. Lamarck (holotype P, isotype K).

  • Distribution

    Damp savannas, usually at low altitudes, British Honduras, Nicaragua, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, British and French Guiana, Suriname and Northern Brazil. This extremely variable species is common on low altitude savannas but the specimens cited by Steyermark from 1830-1920 m, and 1065 m on Alt. Roraima are undoubtedly this species. The leaves are usually linear or narrowly linear but on Maguire, Schulz, Soderstrom & Holmgren 54167 and 54269 from Suriname, Wilhelmina Gebergte, alt 225 and 275

    Honduras Central America| Nicaragua Central America| Trinidad and Tobago South America| Venezuela South America| Colombia South America| Guyana South America| French Guiana South America| Suriname South America| Brazil South America|