| Purple-Pink Bladderwort |
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| Original date | 9/13/26 9:10 AM |
| Resolution | 1400 x 1050 |
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| Focal length | 5.43mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1164s |
| Aperture | 1.89 |
| Focus Distance | 0.113m |
| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
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| Camera model | Pixel 7a |
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Botanical name: Utricularia roseopurpurea Family: Lentibulariaceae (Bladderwort family)
Synonyms: Utricularia racemosa sensu Wight, Utricularia rosea sensu Oliv.
Synonyms: Utricularia racemosa sensu Wight, Utricularia rosea sensu Oliv.
Purple-Pink Bladderwort is a terrestrial or
rock-dwelling annual herb, with rhizoids up to 3.5 cm long and about
0.2 mm thick, and runners about 7.5 cm long, with branches up to 4 cm.
Flowers are borne in erect racemes, 4.5-18 cm long, 1-8-flowered.
Flowers are 0.6-1.3 cm long, pink to purple, rarely greenish white;
upper lip 3-10 mm long, galeate; lower lip 5.5-13 mm long, purple with
a yellow palate and prominent 4-lobed swelling. Spur is 5-8.5 mm long,
stamens 1.5-2 mm long; pistil about 2.5 mm. Leaves are usually 4-6 at
the flower-cluster-stalk base, in rosette, and numerous on runners;
leaf-stalks up to 8 mm long; blades 6.35-8.8 x 1-1.5 mm, oblance-ovate
to inverted-lanceshaped, rounded at tip. Traps are mostly on runners,
spherical, 1-1.3 mm across, with 0.3-1 mm stalks. Capsules are ovoid,
2-3 mm long. Purple-Pink Bladderwort is found in the Western Ghats and
Sri Lanka. Flowering: September-January.
| Identification credit: Arunraj Kedharam | Photographed in Agastyamalai hills, Tamil Nadu. |
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