''Utricularia'' sect. ''Aranella'' is a section in the genus '' Utricularia''. The ten species in this section are small terrestrial

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s native to tropical South America with one species also extending into tropical Africa.

John Hendley Barnhart John Hendley Barnhart (October 4, 1871 – November 11, 1949) was an American botanist and author, specializing in biographies of botanists.Gleaston, H. A. John Hendley Barnhart—An appreciation. '' Journal of the New York Botanical Garden'' Augu ...

originally described and published this section in 1913 as a separate genus, ''Aranella''. Sadashi Komiya revised the genus ''Utricularia'' in a 1973 taxonomic review and placed Barnhart's genus at the rank of

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within ''Utricularia''. Peter Taylor then published his taxonomic

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of ''Utricularia'' in 1986 in which he reduced Komiya's subgenus to the rank of section, placing it within subgenus '' Utricularia''. More recent phylogenetic data and revisions have reinstated subgenus '' Bivalvaria'' and have placed this section within it.Taylor, Peter. (1989). '' The genus Utricularia - a taxonomic monograph''. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XIV: London.Müller, K.F., Borsch, T., Legendre, L., Porembski, S., and Barthlott, W. (2006). Recent progress in understanding the evolution of carnivorous Lentibulariaceae (Lamiales). ''Plant Biology'', 8: 748-757.

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