Utricularia nana

Taxobox | name = "Utricularia nana"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Lamiales
familia = Lentibulariaceae
genus = "Utricularia"
subgenus = "Bivalvaria"
sectio = "Benjaminia"
species = "U. nana"
binomial = "Utricularia nana"
binomial_authority = A. St. Hil. & Girard, 1838

"Utricularia nana" is a carnivorous plant of the Lentibulariaceae family and is the only species in the section "Benjaminia". It is native to the South American countries of Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guinea, Brazil and Paraguay. It grows in swampy ground by streams and wet sandy savanna, from sea level to 1,250 m. The plant flowers between January and June.

It is a small plant, with few filiform rhizoids, which bear numerous short papillose branches. Corolla yellow.

References

*cite book |title=The genus "Utricularia": a taxonomic monograph |author=Peter Taylor |publisher=London: HMSO |year=1989 |id=ISBN 0-11-250046-3