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Utricularia scandens

Botanic Family

Lentibulariaceae

Author

Benjamin

Common Names

• Chan rao wa er cao (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• N. Australia
• Bangladesh
• Benin
• Botswana
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• S Yunnan
• SW Guizhou - China
• Congo
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Guinea
• India
• Indonesia
• Ivory Coast
• Laos
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Malacca - Malaysia
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Nigeria
• Philippines
• Transvaal - South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Thailand
• Tropical Africa
• Vietnam
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Bogs
• meadows
• ponds
• grassland
• rainforest
• montane grassland

Flowering Times

• Aug-Sep (China)
• Oct-Jan (Thailand)
• Apr-Aug (New Guinea)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Oct (China) Oct-Jan (Thailand)

Annual glabrous stoloniferous twining carnivorous herb to 350mm long with leaves 6mm x 0.3mm, pitchers to 1mm long, twining inflorescence to 350mm, flowers with bracts & bracteoles, calyx lobes to 5mm in fruit, corolla lemon-yellow to 15mm long, fruit a capsule to 2.5mm with a single ventral slit

Further References

• FOC
• Thai F.
• JDH
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• FOMP
• Kew