Utricularia appendiculata
A medium-sized African terrestrial bladderwort, probably perennial, and the only member of Utricularia section Oliveria. It grows in open wet places, such as Sphagnum bogs, damp sandy savanna, peaty marshes and floating sedge mats, and flowers mostly in the wet season. Grow it like other sun-loving terrestrial bladderworts: waterlogged peat and sand, bright light and warmth.
Where it grows wild
Open, permanently or seasonally waterlogged ground: Sphagnum bogs, wet grassland and marshy savanna on white or Kalahari sands, peat areas behind mangroves, and floating Sphagnum and sedge mats at the edges of lakes such as Lake Edib in Cameroon. It grows among low sedges and grasses in full sun.
The literature gives mostly 1,500–1,860 m in East Africa and as low as 700 m in the Central African Republic. GBIF records extend from near sea level in coastal Gabon to about 2,000 m, with a median near 425 m.
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