Published August 8, 2022 | Version v1
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Utricularia purpureocaerulea A. St.-Hil. & Girard

  • 1. UFPE - Federal University of Pernambuco, Department of Botany, Laboratory of Plant Morpho-Taxonomy, CEP 50670 - 901, Recife, PE, Brazil & felipehmartins 09 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5957 - 459 X
  • 2. UNESP - São Paulo State University, School of Agricultural and Veterinarian Sciences, Department of Applied Biology, Laboratory of Plant Systematics, Campus Jaboticabal, CEP 14884 - 900, SP, Brazil & vitor. miranda @ unesp. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0574 - 9865
  • 3. UFPE - Federal University of Pernambuco, Department of Botany, Laboratory of Plant Morpho-Taxonomy, CEP 50670 - 901, Recife, PE, Brazil & alves. marccus @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9281 - 2257

Description

2.26. Utricularia purpureocaerulea A.St.-Hil. & Girard, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences 7: 869 (1838). [Figs. 1 and 7 M-N].

Terrestrial or helophyte. Aerial linear leaves. Slender and flexible scape. Basifixed and free bracts and bracteoles, entire margins. Ascending pedicels in fruits. Sepals with conspicuous and prominent nerves, plan and entire margins. Purple or lilac corolla, yellow gibbous palate, subreniform upper lip, entire to crenulate lower lip, straight and subulate/ bifid spur, longer than and parallel to the lower lip. Longitudinally dehiscing capsule.

Selected material:— Abaíra, Caminho Boa Vista para Bicota, 09 July 1995, fl. and fr., F. França 1317 (CEPEC, HUEFS, NY); Andaraí, PARNA Chapada Diamantina, Córrego do distrito de Igatu, 04 July 2015, fl. and fr., P.C. Baleeiro 371 (SPF); Licínio de Almeida, 12 Km da cidade em direção a Brejinho das Ametistas, 12 March 1994, fl., N. Roque 15013 (CEPEC, HUEFS, RB, SPF); Piatã, Trilha para o Campo da Mutuca, 16 July 2005, fl., V.F.O. de Miranda 1265 (JABU); Rio de Contas, Kaiambola, Serra da Mesa, 19 April 2003, fl., A.M. Giulietti 2416a (HUEFS).

Comments:— Utricularia purpureocaerulea can be confused with U. blanchetii (see comments section in this species). This species is endemic to Brazil, and in Bahia state is found only in campos rupestres, representing the northernmost known populations of the species.

Notes

Published as part of Guedes, Felipe Martins, Miranda, Vitor Fernandes Oliveira & Alves, Marccus, 2022, Diversity and distribution of Lentibulariaceae in Bahia state, Brazil: implications for phytogeography and conservation, pp. 213-255 in Phytotaxa 556 (3) on page 240, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.556.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6972832

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