Utricularia neottioides
Utricularia neottioides is a rheophytic bladderwort that grows in dense mats clamped to rocks in fast, shallow water, in streams, rapids and waterfalls across the Brazilian cerrado, campo rupestre and the Guiana Shield fringe. It lives in full sun in clear, soft, nutrient-poor running water. It is rarely grown because it needs genuine current, not just wet conditions.
Where it grows wild
The plant grows affixed to rock in the shallows of swiftly moving water. Herbarium labels describe it as an aquatic or rheophytic herb on rock outcrops at stream edges, at waterfalls and in pools on quartzite and sandstone in cerrado rupestre and campo rupestre. It is repeatedly labelled heliophilous (sun-loving) and often grows alongside Vellozia and Barbacenia. Some collections come from temporary rivers and waterlogged sandy savanna.
GBIF specimen elevations span about 190-1,550 m, with a median around 840 m. Most records come from the Brazilian central plateau (Chapada dos Veadeiros, Serra do Espinhaço, Distrito Federal) at 800-1,300 m, and lowland records come from Amazonian Colombia, Pará and Mato Grosso.
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