''Utricularia mangshanensis'' is a

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 ...

belonging to the

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'' Utricularia''. This species is known only from the Mangshan Mountains of

Hunan Province Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi t ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. It is thought to be most closely related to '' U. peranomala''.Hu, G.-W., C.-L. Long & K.-M. Liu 2007. ''Ann. Bot. Fennici'' 44: 389–392.

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Carnivorous plants of Asia Flora of China Plants described in 2007 mangshanensis {{Lentibulariaceae-stub

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