About humped bladderwort
Utricularia gibba, commonly known as the humped bladderwort or floating bladderwort, is a small, mat-forming species of carnivorous aquatic bladderwort. It is found on all continents except Antarctica. U. gibba has an exceptionally small genome for a plant, despite having a typical number of genes. The sequencing of its DNA revealed only 3% repetitive DNA material.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Utricularia exoleta
- Genus
- Utricularia
- Family
- LENTIBULARIACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- On hills above 1000 m in still waters
- Distribution
- Tropical Africa, Portugal, India, China, Japan, NE. Australia, Malesia
- Flowering & fruiting
- July-February
- Conservation status
- Data Deficient (DD)
Botanical family
Lentibulariaceae
Bladderwort Family
humped bladderwort belongs to the Lentibulariaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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