Utricularia ameliae
A small perennial terrestrial bladderwort described in 2013. It has fleshy, narrow leaves, tiny traps and solitary dark-violet flowers with yellow ridges and a white upper lip, on stems 5–11 cm tall. It is known only from the permanently wet sedge bogs of Elizabeth Springs, an artesian mound-spring wetland in the hot, arid country of far western Queensland. In cultivation it needs full sun, heat and a medium that never dries out.
Where it grows wild
It forms scattered colonies in permanently wet sedgeland bog fed by artesian springs, in brown sandy or clay soil and in wet scree. It grows with Cyperus laevigatus, Eragrostis fenshamii, Fimbristylis, Myriophyllum artesium, Eriocaulon carsonii and Utricularia caerulea.
Elizabeth Springs lies at about 100–150 m on the plains of the Great Artesian Basin.
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