Utricularia guyanensis
A small terrestrial bladderwort of wet sandy savannas and coastal sands in northern South America and Central America, the only member of section Stylotheca. It has linear leaves and small yellow flowers with an almost absent spur. Grow it hot, bright and wet, like other lowland savanna bladderworts.
Where it grows wild
It grows on wet or seasonally flooded sandy savannas, in hollows between coastal dunes, in restinga and in the damp sands of campinarana. Collectors record it in temporary pools that almost dry out and in waterlogged sandy soil.
Mostly near sea level: most GBIF records with elevations are below 20 m. It reaches about 1100 m in Bolívar, Venezuela.
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