Very interesting; thank you very much Rawat ji for sharing this knowledge. Regards. Dinesh
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Sushant More <[email protected]>wrote: > wow interesting > > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 2:03 PM, D.S Rawat > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Bladdertworts or Utricularias are insectivorous plants; no matter how >> small are they. This *Utricularia striatula* Smith (Lentibulariaceae) is >> a tiny plant reaching to a height of only 3 cm. It grows along with mosses >> on moist rock faces with dripping water in shady conditions or on tree >> trunks. Basal part of the inflorescence axis produces few creeping >> branches-stolons, which bear small insect trapping devices evolved by this >> genus during evolution. These traps are named variously- urceoli, ampullae, >> vesiculae, utriculae, pitchers, bladders etc. The traps shown here are >> hardly 1-1.5 mm large with a mouth (orifice) encircled by many appendages >> (hair like structure). >> >> True leaves are absent in *Utricularia* and green photosynthetic organs >> are referred as foliar organs which are present at the base of >> inflorescence axis or on stolons here. >> >> In vegetative state *U.striatula* is very difficult to differentiate due >> to small size and only becomes noticeable when flowers appear on erect >> 2-3cm tall inflorescence axis. Flowers are comparatively larger being 7-10 >> mm including spur and colourful. >> >> This species is widespread in India and reaches to Tropical Africa to >> Malesia, China and Sri Lanka. >> >> 35 species of *Utricularia* are reported by M.K.Janarthanam and >> A.N.Henry in their fine document “*Bladderworts of India*” published by >> Botanical Survey of India in 1992. It was this document and help of these >> authors which enabled me to identify my specimens as *U.brachiata* Olive >> in 1999, a very rare Himalayan terrestrial bladderwort and was a new record >> to Western Himalaya. >> >> Photographs shot near Jeolikot on way to Naini Tal in August 2013. >> >> With so minute bladders and even smaller mouth how much small insect will >> it trap and digest? Whatever it may eat, it is happy and flourishing in its >> habitats. >> DSRawat Pantnagar >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > *Sushant More* > *Student * > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
