utricularia, viscosa, small, medium, sized, perennial, terrestrial, subaquatic, carnivorous, plant, that, belongs, genus, utricularia, only, member, utricularia, sect, sprucea, viscosa, native, central, america, belize, nicaragua, south, america, brazil, frenc. Utricularia viscosa is a small to medium sized perennial terrestrial or subaquatic carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia and is the only member of Utricularia sect Sprucea U viscosa is native to Central America Belize and Nicaragua and South America Brazil French Guiana Guyana Suriname Trinidad and Venezuela It grows as a terrestrial or subaquatic plant in wet sandy savannas at lower altitudes but as high as 900 m 2 953 ft in Guyana It was originally named by Richard Spruce and formally described by Daniel Oliver in 1860 In 1986 Peter Taylor placed this species in its own section Sprucea which was named in honor of Richard Spruce 1 Utricularia viscosa Scientific classification Kingdom Plantae Clade Tracheophytes Clade Angiosperms Clade Eudicots Clade Asterids Order Lamiales Family Lentibulariaceae Genus Utricularia Subgenus Utricularia subg Utricularia Section Utricularia sect SpruceaP Taylor Species U viscosa Binomial name Utricularia viscosaSpruce ex Oliv Synonyms U adenantha Standl U cutleri Steyerm See also editList of Utricularia speciesReferences edit Taylor Peter 1989 The genus Utricularia a taxonomic monograph Kew Bulletin Additional Series XIV London External links editFirst known photographs of U viscosa nbsp This Lentibulariaceae article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Utricularia viscosa amp oldid 1064088158, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
