Utricularia viscosa Spruce ex Oliv.
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Authority
Maguire, Bassett. 1967. The botany of the Guayana Highland--Part VII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 17: 1-439.
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Family
Lentibulariaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Distribution and Ecology - Wetter parts of savannas, sea level to alt 900m, Trinidad, Venezuela, British Guiana and Brazil. VENEZUELA. Bolivar: savanna and morichal 0.5 km NE and E of Uriman, alt 393 m, Steyermark & Wurdack 9 (VEN) ; Rio Parguaza, just W of El Carmen about 50 km above mouth, alt 100 m, Wurdack & Monachino 40968 (K, NY). BRAZIL. Mato Grosso: near source of Rio Paraguay, Dorrien Smith 224 (K). BRITISH GUIANA. Rupununi River, 20 miles S of Lethem on Wichabi road, alt 90 m, Cook 192 (K, NY) ; Rupununi River, sand creek, Wilson-Browne 54 (K); Kanuku Mts., Iramaipang, alt 900 m, Wilson-Browne 581 (K). Cook 192 is much more robust than the other specimens cited and also differs in its acute or acuminate rather than obtuse or rounded calyx lobes.
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Discussion
Utricularia cutleri Steyermark, Bull. Torrey Club 79: 311. 1952. Type. Brazil, Ceara, Cutler S363 (F).
Type. Brazil. Para: Santarem, Spruce 1042 (holotype K, isotypes P, W).
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Distribution
Wetter parts of savannas, sea level to alt 900m, Trinidad, Venezuela, British Guiana and Brazil.
Venezuela South America| Guyana South America| Trinidad and Tobago South America| Brazil South America|