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

U. monanthos Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 1, 1860, 299.

Type: Tasmanian.

Plant with very slender to filiform stolons bearing several subcompressed, subglobose bladders ± 1·5-2.5 mm. diam. Lvs radical, deciduous, (5)-10-15-(25) mm. long, narrow, linear to spathulate. Scape slender, erect, ± 2-10 cm. long, 1-(2)-fld. Fls (5)-9-10 mm. diam.; bracts minute, ovate-triangular. Calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse. Corolla dark to very dark violet-purple, with yellow eye, very rarely whitish. Upper lip broadly cuneate, retuse; lower broad, almost semicircular; palate with yellow glandular line; spur short, obtuse. Capsule subglobose-obovoid.

DIST.: N., S., St. Lowland to montane bogs and very damp ground from lat. 39° southwards.

FL. 11-3.

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