Utricularia pubescens
A small terrestrial bladderwort with tiny umbrella-shaped (peltate) leaves, unique in the genus and the only member of section Lloydia. It is widespread across tropical Africa, India and Central and South America, growing in wet, open, peaty grassland and on seeping rocks from near sea level into the highlands. It is probably annual in the wild, so treat it as a short-lived, sun-loving plant of permanently wet ground.
Where it grows wild
Boggy savanna grassland, wet sand and peat, and seepage over rock outcrops, including the sandstone and granite of the Guiana Highlands and West African inselbergs. The plants grow among low sedges and grasses in open, sunny sites.
Literature gives sea level to about 1900 m; our 122 elevation-bearing records span 23–2580 m with a median of 900 m, so many populations are submontane.
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