''Utricularia pulchra'' is a small, probably
annual,
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
New Guinea. ''U. pulchra'' grows as a
lithophyte or terrestrial plant among mosses in wet sand or rocks and on wet cliffs at altitudes from to . It was originally described by
Peter Taylor in 1977.
[Taylor, Peter. (1989). '' The genus Utricularia - a taxonomic monograph''. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XIV: London.]
See also
*
List of ''Utricularia'' species
References
Flora of New Guinea
Carnivorous plants of Asia
Plants described in 1977
pulchra
Endemic flora of New Guinea
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