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Utricularia biovularioides

Utricularia biovularioides is a small, free-floating aquatic annual bladderwort that traps tiny prey in bladders. It is known only from a couple of Brazilian collections and is rarely grown in cultivation.

Family
Lentibulariaceae (Lentibulari family)
Grows as
Aquatic, Annual
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep submerged or in a shallow tank of standing water, kept permanently wet.
Soil
Not rooted in soil; grows suspended in water, often with a small amount of inert substrate.
Temperature
Warm, seasonally tropical conditions, roughly 20–30 °C; protect from cold.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Brazil (Amazonas, Goiás, Mato Grosso)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Utricularia biovularioides is a small, suspended aquatic annual carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia (family Lentibulariaceae). It is endemic to Brazil and, as of Peter Taylor's 1989 monograph on the genus, has only been located twice. The type specimen has not been located.

Other Utricularia plants

Utricularia adpressa · Utricularia albiflora · Utricularia albocaerulea · Utricularia alpina · Utricularia ameliae · Florida purple bladderwort · Utricularia andongensis · Utricularia antennifera · Utricularia appendiculata · Utricularia arcuata · Utricularia arenaria · Utricularia arnhemica

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Utricularia biovularioides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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