Utricularia simulans

Utricularia simulans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lentibulariaceae
Genus:	Utricularia
Subgenus:	Bivalvaria
Section:	Aranella
Species:	U. simulans
Binomial name
Utricularia simulans Pilg.

Utricularia simulans, the fringed bladderwort, is a small to medium-sized, probably perennial, carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. U. simulans is native to tropical Africa and the Americas. It grows as a terrestrial plant in damp, sandy soils in open savanna at altitudes from near sea level to 1,575 m (5,167 ft). U. simulans was originally described and published by Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger in 1914.

Synonyms

U. simulans covers a vast native range and is an extremely variable species, which accounts for the moderate amount of synonymy.

• [Aranella fimbriata Barnhart]
• [Cosmiza longeciliata Small]
• ?Polypompholyx bicolor Klotzsch
• P. laciniata Benj.
• P. laciniata var. rubrocalcarata Griseb.
• Utricularia congesta Steyerm.
• U. congesta f. deminutiva Steyerm.
• [U. fimbriata Leon & Alain]
• U. laciniata Mart.
• [U. laciniata Buscal.]
• U. laciniata var. poeppigiana Buscal.
• [U. longeciliata Oliv.]
• U. orinocensis Steyerm.
• U. surinamensis Buscal.

See also

• List of Utricularia species

External links

• Utricularia simulans in West African plants – A Photo Guide.