''Utricularia'' sect. ''Calpidisca'' is a
section in the genus ''
Utricularia''. The ten species in this section are small terrestrial
carnivorous plant
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s native to
Africa with one species extending its range into
Mexico and another that extends into
Asia as far as
India.
John Hendley Barnhart
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originally described and published this section in 1916 as a separate genus, ''Calpidisca''.
Sadashi Komiya revised the genus ''Utricularia'' in a 1973 taxonomic review and placed Barnhart's genus at the rank of
section within ''Utricularia''.
Peter Taylor then published his taxonomic
monograph
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In library cataloging, ''monograph ...
of ''Utricularia'' in 1986 in which he placed Komiya's section 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.]
See also
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List of ''Utricularia'' species
References
Utricularia
Plant sections
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