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Utricularia livida

Botanic Family

Lentibulariaceae

Author

E. Meyer

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Lesotho
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Rwanda
• Somalia
• Cape Province
• Natal
• Orange Free State
• Transvaal - South Africa
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Wet areas
• marshland
• inundated areas
• running water

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Small herb to 15mm high with prostrate leaves to 5mm x 1.5mm & twining leafless flower stalks, pitchers to 10mm long, flowers violet or yellow, carnivorous, capsule 3mm long

Further References

• de Candolle
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew
• FOTA