Utricularia olivacea, the piedmont bladderwort,[2] is a very small, annual suspended aquatic carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. Utricularia olivacea is native to Central America, South America, the West Indies, and the eastern United States (coastal plain from Mississippi to New Jersey).[3][4][5][6]

Utricularia olivacea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lentibulariaceae
Genus: Utricularia
Subgenus: Utricularia subg. Utricularia
Section: Utricularia sect. Utricularia
Species:
U. olivacea
Binomial name
Utricularia olivacea
Wright ex Griseb. 1866
Synonyms[1]
  • Biovularia brasiliensis Kuhlm.
  • Biovularia minima (Warm.Kamiénski
  • Biovularia olivacea (Wright ex Griseb.) Kamiénski
  • Utricularia minima Warm.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ The Plant List, Utricularia olivacea C.Wright ex Griseb.
  2. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Utricularia olivacea". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
  3. ^ Taylor, Peter. (1989). The genus Utricularia a taxonomic monograph. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XIV: London.
  4. ^ Jørgensen, P. M., M. H. Nee & S. G. Beck. (eds.) 2014. Cat. Pl. Vasc. Bolivia, Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia, Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127(1–2): i–viii, 1–1744.
  5. ^ Funk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584
  6. ^ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map