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A vigorous South American species with large green umbrella leaves and long creeping stolons. Writing in Carnivorous Plant Newsletter in 2001 (CPN vol.30 No.1), Fernando Rivadavia says: "Utricularia nelumbifolia Gardn. is one of the largest species of the genus. It is closely related to the other large species U. reniformis St.Hil. and U. humboldtii Schonb. - they are all from section Iperua P.Taylor. These three species are the only ones known to grow inside the water-filled leaf axils of bromeliads. Although widespread on highlands of eastern Brazil, U. nelumbifolia is elusive and it took me many years of intense searching before I finally found it in early 1996." |
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