Lentibulariaceae

Utricularia pusilla, copyright Alex Popovkin.

Belongs within: Lamiales.

The Lentibulariaceae is a family of small carnivorous plants growing in damp habitats. Species of Pinguicula (butterworts) have sticky glandular leaves that trap insects, while Utricularia (bladderworts) have specialised bladders on filiform leaves that trap aquatic micro-invertebrates. Polypompholyx is a small Australian genus that closely resembles Utricularia but has flowers with four sepals instead of two as in the latter (Black & Robertson 1965).

Characters (from Black & Robertson 1965): Herbs growing in water or wet places; leaves radical, without stipules. Flowers solitary or racemose at summit of erect scapes; irregular, bisexual; calyx persistent, of two or four sepals; corolla two-lipped, the lower lip usually prolonged at base into spur; two stamens, connivent, inserted at base of upper lip of corolla, enclosed; anthers one-celled; ovary superior, one-celled, with numerous anatropous ovules attached to free central placenta; style very short; stigma broadly two-lipped, lips somewhat unequal; fruit a capsule with many small exalbuminous seeds.

<==Lentibulariaceae [Lentibularieae]
    |  i. s.: Polypompholyx BR65
    |           |--P. multifida GK00
    |           `--P. tenella BR65
    |--Pinguicula NS06
    |    |--P. alpina O88
    |    |--P. antarctica D03
    |    |--P. crystallina D30
    |    |--P. grandiflora C55a
    |    |--P. lusitanica C55a
    |    |--P. villosa C55a
    |    `--P. vulgaris A16
    |         |--P. v. ssp. vulgaris H93
    |         `--P. v. ssp. macroceras H93
    `--+--Genlisea NS06
       `--Utricularia Linnaeus 1753 NS06, A61
            |  i. s.: U. antennifera LK14
            |         U. arnhemica LK14
            |         U. aurea P88
            |         U. australis GK00
            |         U. bifida LK14
            |         U. blanchetii FR09
            |         U. caerulea LK14
            |         U. capillacea Willdenow 1797 (see below for synonymy) B03
            |         U. chrysantha LK14
            |         U. colensoi Hooker 1854 A61
            |         U. cornuta V72
            |         U. delicatula Cheeseman 1906 A61
            |         U. dichotoma BR65
            |         U. dunlopii LK14
            |         U. dunstaniae LK14
            |         U. fistulosa LK14
            |         U. flaccida FR09
            |         U. georgei LK14
            |         U. gibba [incl. M. biflora, M. fibrosa] H93
            |         U. hookeri GK00
            |         U. inaequalis GK00
            |         U. inflexa GC05
            |         U. intermedia A61
            |         U. kenneallyi LK14
            |         U. kimberleyensis LK14
            |         U. lasiocaulis LK14
            |         U. lateriflora Br. 1810 [incl. U. arnica ms] A61
            |         U. leptoplectra LK14
            |         U. leptorhyncha LK14
            |         U. limosa LK14
            |         U. mairii Cheeseman 1906 A61
            |         U. malabarica Janarthanam & Henry 1989 SG02
            |         U. minor O88
            |         U. minutissima Vahl 1804 SG02
            |         U. monanthos Hooker 1860 A61
            |         U. muelleri LK14
            |         U. novae-zelandiae Hooker 1854 A61
            |         U. parthenopipes FR09
            |         U. protrusa Hooker 1854 A61
            |         U. quinquedentata LK14
            |         U. simplex GK00
            |         U. stellaris C55b
            |         U. subsimilis Coenso 1884 A61
            |         U. tubulata LK14
            |         U. uliginosa LK14
            |         U. violacea GK00
            |         U. volubilis GK00
            |         U. vulcanica Colenso 1894 A61
            |         U. vulgaris C55b
            |--U. sect. Aranella FR09
            |    |--U. costata FR09
            |    |--U. laciniata FR09
            |    |--U. purpureocaerulea FR09
            |    `--U. rostrata Fleischmann & Rivadavia 2009 FR09
            |--U. (sect. Benjaminia) nana FR09
            `--U. (sect. Setiscapella) pusilla FR09

Utricularia capillacea Willdenow 1797 [incl. U. scandens Benjamin 1847, U. wallichiana Wight 1850, U. wallichii Wight 1849] B03

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

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[B03] Bhattacharyya, P. K. 2003. The nomenclatural type of Utricularia capillacea Willd. (Lentibulariaceae). Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 45: 195–200.

[BR65] Black, J. M., & E. L. Robertson. 1965. Flora of South Australia. Part IV. Oleaceae–Compositae. W. L. Hawes, Government Printer: Adelaide.

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[FR09] Fleischmann, A., & F. Rivadavia. 2009. Utricularia rostrata (Lentibulariaceae), a new species from the Chapada Diamantina, Brazil. Kew Bulletin 64 (1): 155–159.

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Last updated: 9 June 2019.