Utricularia quelchii
A small perennial bladderwort of the Guiana Highlands of Venezuela and Guyana, famous for its showy red flowers. It grows on wet, mossy rocks and banks, on low tree trunks and branches and sometimes in the water-filled leaf axils of Brocchinia bromeliads, mostly around 2000 m on the tepuis. It is a highland plant that needs cool nights, constant moisture and very humid, moving air.
Where it grows wild
It lives on wet, mossy rocks or banks in swamps, around the bases and branches of low trees, and sometimes in the water held in the leaf axils of Brocchinia bromeliads. These tepui summit and slope habitats are cool, cloudy and almost constantly wet.
Mostly around 2000 m, recorded from 1400 m up to 2800 m on Roraima.
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