| Lazuli Bladderwort |
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| Original date | 7/14/13 8:45 AM |
| Resolution | 1760 x 1320 |
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| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1000s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G3 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Utricularia lazulina Family: Lentibulariaceae (Bladderwort family)
Lazuli Bladderwort is beautiful bladderwort with
flowers the color of Lapis Lazuli, the precious stone. Flowers are
blue-violet, 8-10 mm long, upper lip oblong, slightly constricted below
the middle, lower lip prominent bigibbous swellings at base, spur
spoon-shaped, slightly curved with pointed tip. Sepals are slightly
unequal; upper ovate, acute; lower slightly longer. Flowering stems are
up to 12 cm high, 1-4-flowered, erect, bracts basifixed. Flower-stalks
are 2-5 mm long, erect in flower, spreading in fruit. It is a
terrestrial herb with obovate to inverted-lanceshaped leaves, up to 8
mm long, traps subglobose. Capsules are ovoid, about 2 mm long. Seeds
obovoid, net-veined. Lazuli Bladderwort is common during rainy season
on wet laterite rocks. It is endemic to the Western Ghats, reported
from Goa, Karnataka and Kerala. Flowering: July-September.
Identification credit: Shivaprakash Nedle
| Photographed in Goa & Udupi, Karnataka. |