Utricularia pentadactyla P. Taylor

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Photo: Bart Wursten
Northwestern slopes below Mt Dombe, Chimanimani Mts.

Photo: Bart Wursten
Northern slopes below Mt Binga, Chimanimani Mts.

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Frequency:	Apparently rare but probably overlooked
Status:	Native
Description:	Tiny, slender carnivorous terrestrial herbs, growing from short stolons. Roots, stolons and leaves set with numerous minute, globose, sortly-stalked, sticky glanular traps. Leaves 2-5 in a basal rosette, usually absent or very small at flowering time, oblanceolate-spathulate, c. 1 mm wide with a petiole up to 6 mm long. Inflorescence on a filiform peduncle 2- 30 cm long, laxly 1-4-flowered. Flowers pale mauve or white with a yellow spot on the palate, 3-15 mm long; upper lip, erect, parallel-sided in the upper half with a more or less deeply bifid apex; lower lip, half to almost as long as the spur, broadly ovate to sub-orbicular in outline, distinctly and often deeply 5-lobed. Spur up to 10 mm long, parallel with the lower lip, straight or rarely slightly curved, sometimes the spur may be very reduced and shortly conical or saccate.
Notes:	The specimens in the images (Mapaura 660 and Ballings & Wursten 2272) are the first and only records from Mozambique but this species has probably been much overlooked.
Derivation of specific name:	pentadactyla : 5-fingered, referring to the distinctly 5-lobed lower lip.
Habitat:	Damp sandy or peaty soils overlying rock.
Altitude range:	1500 - 2100 m
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Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Mozambique distribution:	MS
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Content last updated:	Friday 5 December 2014
Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 195. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 58. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 72. Taylor, P. (1964). The genus Utricularia L. in Africa (South of the Sahara) and Madagascar Kew Bulletin 18(1) Pages 129 - 135. (Includes a picture). Taylor, P. (1988). Lentibulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(3) Page 16. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 95.

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