| Kumaon Bladderwort |
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| File size | 349903 |
| Original date | 10/1/19 11:06 AM |
| Resolution | 1800 x 1350 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 40.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/800s |
| Aperture | 4.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Utricularia kumaonensis Family: Lentibulariaceae (Bladderwort family)
Synonyms: Diurospermum album
Synonyms: Diurospermum album
Kumaon Bladderwort is small annual carnivorous plant
that grows on rocks, other plants or on the ground. Leaves are few, in
a rosette at the base of flowering stem, stalked, hairless. Leaves are
broadly obovate, round, or kidney-shaped, 2-6 x 1.5-3 mm.
Inflorescences are erect, 2-7 cm, 1-3-flowered, hairless. Flower-stalks
are erect at anthesis but decurved in fruit, round, 2-6 mm,
thread-like. Lower sepal is oblong, much smaller than upper sepals;
upper sepal intervet-heart-shaped, about 2 mm, base rounded, tip deeply
2-parted. Flowers are white, with a basal yellow spot and mauve lobes
on lower lip, 3-5 mm; lower lip nearly round, 5-lobed, middle lobe much
larger than lateral lobes. Kumaon Bladderwort is found in the
Himalayas, NW Yunnan, Bhutan, N Myanmar, Nepal, at altitudes of
2600-2700 m. Flowering: July-August.
| Identification credit: N Arun Kumar | Photographed in Dzongri, West Sikkim. |
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