Species within a genus

Genus: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
UTRICULARIA (La)
Bladderwort (Le)
Family: LENTIBULARIACEAE
uter, = a bag or bottle made of an animal’s hide or a skin for wine, oil, water, etc.;
-culus, = diminutive;
utriculus, = of plants, a bud or calycle of a flower, a hull or husk of grain;
-alis, -aris, = belonging or pertaining to, resembling, provided with.
utricularius, = a bagpiper; the master of a raft floated on bladders used for ferriage.
(bladder-like, bladdery, possessing bladders, inflated)
(insectivorous sacs)
(rootless herbs with small bladder-like outgrowths on branched organs in soil or water, which bladders enable the plant to capture insects)
(ld, BL, Le)
Utricularia bisquamata (La)
Bladderwort (Vo) Cape Bladderwort (Wf)
Location: (F, K, P)
bis, bi-, = twice, twofold, having two-;
squama, = scale (of a fish, serpent);
-atus, = indicates possession or likeness.
squamatus, = scaly.
(ld, BL)