''Utricularia delphinioides'' is a small to medium-sized, probably perennial,

carnivorous plant Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans Protozoa (singular: protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a group of single-celled eukaryot ...

that belongs to the genus '' Utricularia''. It is endemic to Indochina and can be found in Cambodia,

Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...

, Thailand, and Vietnam. ''U. delphinioides'' grows as a terrestrial plant in swamps and rice fields, wet grasslands, or open pine forests at altitudes from near sea level to . It was originally named by

Clovis Thorel Clovis Thorel, born April 28, 1833 in Hébécourt, Somme, France, died September 11, 1911 in Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, was a French botanist, explorer of Indochina and doctor. A significant number of plant species are named after him and he described ...

but formally described and published by

François Pellegrin François Pellegrin (25 September 1881, in Paris's 6e arrondissement – 9 April 1965, in the Hôpital Bichat in the 18e arrondissement) was a French botanist, who specialised in the plants of tropical Africa. He published some 623 plant names ...

in 1920. A variety, ''U. delphinioides'' var. ''minor'', was also described in 1920, but Peter Taylor reduced the variety to synonymy under ''U. delphinioides'' because he discovered a continuous range of sizes between the larger and smaller forms, size being the only distinctive characteristic in the 1920 description of the variety.Taylor, Peter. (1989). '' The genus Utricularia - a taxonomic monograph''. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XIV: London.

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delphinioides Carnivorous plants of Asia Flora of Indo-China {{Lentibulariaceae-stub

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