Fringed bladderwort facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Fringed bladderwort |
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Utricularia
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simulans
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Utricularia simulans, the fringed bladderwort, is a small to medium-sized, probably perennial, carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. U. simulans is native to tropical Africa and the Americas. It grows as a terrestrial plant in damp, sandy soils in open savanna at altitudes from near sea level to 1,575 m (5,167 ft). U. simulans was originally described and published by Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger in 1914.
Synonyms
U. simulans covers a vast native range and is an extremely variable species, which accounts for the moderate amount of synonymy.
- [Aranella fimbriata Barnhart]
- [Cosmiza longeciliata Small]
- ?Polypompholyx bicolor Klotzsch
- P. laciniata Benj.
- P. laciniata var. rubrocalcarata Griseb.
- Utricularia congesta Steyerm.
- U. congesta f. deminutiva Steyerm.
- [U. fimbriata Leon & Alain]
- U. laciniata Mart.
- [U. laciniata Buscal.]
- U. laciniata var. poeppigiana Buscal.
- [U. longeciliata Oliv.]
- U. orinocensis Steyerm.
- U. surinamensis Buscal.
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