Utricularia alpina Jacq.

Herb with one to several translucent tubers
ca. 1cm by 5mm; stem purple to green flush
purple above; leaves lustrous light green
with purple spots,pale below; bracts cream
white inside to light purple outsiie and
slightly fleshy: petals lavender with double
yellow streak on lip and white on throat of
upper petal; anthers brown. Grows in thin,
moist humus layer close to bare or weathered
sandstone.
'80TAHICAL
NEW YORK BOTAN]CAL GARDEN
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"Campamento Frontera VI", (Lat. 9 301 N, Long. 73 06' W), on tepgf-llke
sandstone ridge 4 x 0.5-1 km running E - W, east of the international
border, between the headwaters of Rfo del Norte and the southernmost
branch of Rfo Aricuaisa;	Distrito Perija, Estado Zulia; ca.
2400 m eiev..
Paul E, Berry
Explorad6n realizada
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NO. 120
ooopsraclfin eon la Diracdtfn da Frontera dal
23-28 July 1974
Mliuaterio da Rolaoionm
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