Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Utricularia protrusa Hook.f.

U. protrusa Hook. f. Fl. N.Z. 1, 1854, 206.

Type locality: Bay of Plenty, "bogs". Type: lost. Neotype: A, "8611, P. H. Allen, Waiharaheke Stream, Piako, March 1909."

Stems floating in still water, up to 4 dm. or more long, filiform, sparingly branched. Lvs ∞, submerged, multifid, 2-3-(4) cm. long; segs capillary, up to ± 1 cm. long. Bladders ∞, (1)-2-3-(4) mm. long, obliquely ovoid, attached by short stalk to near base of lf-segs. Scape rather stout, erect, up to c. 15 cm. long, 2-4-(5)-fld near apex. Calyx-lobes oblong to elliptic. Corolla yellow; upper lip 3-lobed; lower entire, broad; disk protruded, margins recurved. Spur short, obtuse. Capsule ?

DIST.: N. Lowland still waters from c. lat. 35° to 38° 30'.

FL. 1.

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