Tuesday, November 16, 2021

[Botany • 2020] Utricularia kamarudeenii (Lentibulariaceae) • A New Species from Kerala, India


 Utricularia kamarudeenii  V. S. A. Kumar & S. Arya

in Arya, Raju, Arunraj, ... et Anilkumar, 2020. 

Abstract
A new species of Utricularia named U. kamarudeenii, from the paddy fields of Kottayam district of Kerala, India, is described and illustrated. The new species resembles U. aurea but differs from it in the length of spur with respect to lower lip, deeply bilobed lower lip, presence of one type of trap having basal mouth without appendages and hexagonal shape of the seed.

Keywords: bladderwort, insectivorous plant, Lamiales, stolons, Eudicots


  


Sindhu Arya, Reshma Raju, Parappurakkal Thazhe Arunraj, Walsan Kalarikkal Vishnu, Punnakot Biju and Venugopalan Nair Saradhamma Anilkumar. 2020. Utricularia kamarudeenii (Lentibulariaceae): A New Species from Kerala, India. Phytotaxa. 447(1); 68–72. DOI:  10.11646/phytotaxa.447.1.7