MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH268 : Utricularia striatula J. E. Smith |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On wet rocks in grasslands | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | IUCN Red List - Least concern | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Lentibulariaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Striped Bladderwort • Marathi: Chire-papni | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Lemnopsis mnioides Zipp. Meloneura purpurea Raf. Meloneura striatula (Sm.) Barnhart Utricularia anthropophora Ridl. Utricularia glochidiata Wight Utricularia harlandii Oliv. ex Benth. Utricularia orbiculata Wall. ex A. DC. Utricularia philetas Good Utricularia pusilla J. Graham Utricularia pusilla J. Graham Utricularia rosulata Benj. Utricularia striatula var. minor Ridl. Utricularia taikankoensis Yamam. |
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| Description : | Herbs; rhizoids up to 2.5 cm long, simple, few or altogether absent; stolons up to 9 cm long, simple, rarely branched, glandular. Foliar organs with pseudopetiole up to 15 mm long, orbicular to obovate, rosulate at scape base, scattered on stolons, expanded portion up to 5 mm across, veins dichotomously branched. Traps up to 1.5 mm across, globose to obliquely ovoid; mouth lateral; appendages glandular hairy, on expanded, divergent upper lip. Racemes up to 18 mm long, erect, often zigzag, glabrous, up to 10 flowered; scales if present 1-1.5 mm long, medifixed; bracts 0.6-2 mm long, medifixed, constricted at middle, limbs unequal; bracteoles 0.7-1.5 mm long, medifixed, limbs unequal. Flowers up to 10 mm long; pedicels 1.5-7 mm long, filiform, spreading or recurved in fruit, papillose at least in fruiting. Calyx-lobes unequal, papillose; upper lobe 1.2-4 x 2-4 mm, obovate to obcordate, emarginate, truncate or obtuse at apex; lower lobe 0.6-2 x 0.4-2 mm, oblong to ovate, truncate, notched or rounded at apex. Corolla pink, lilac, violet, white to variously tinged, often yellow-blotched near base; upper lip 0.6-2 mm across, semiorbicular to deltoid, bidentate, truncate or irregular at apex; lower lip 3-7 x 3-10 mm, 3-or 5-lobed, throat hairy, base raised or flat, rounded or truncate at apices of lobes; spur 1-6 mm long, cylindrical or conical, rarely reduced to a mound, obtuse, acute or retuse at apex. Stamens up to 1.2 mm long; filaments strap-shaped, curved; anther thecae subdistinct. Pistil up to 1.2 mm long; ovary obliquely ovoid, attached to base of upper calyx-lobe; style distinct; stigma 2-lipped, lower lip oblong to semiorbicular, upper lip obsolete. Capsules 1.5-3.5 mm long, obliquely ovoid, attached to upper calyx-lobe, keeled in ventral side, dehisce by a longitudinal ventral slit; palcenta c 1 x 0.6 mm, flask-shaped; seeds 0.3-0.4 mm long, clavate, cylindrical or oblongoid, attached radially to placentum, glochidiate. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
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