''Utricularia simmonsii'' is a small annual or

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terrestrial

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that belongs to the

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'' Utricularia'' and is the only member of ''Utricularia'' sect. ''Minutae''. ''U. simmonsii'' is

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and is only known from a few locations in the

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and

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. It and the section ''Minutae'' were originally published and described by

Allen Lowrie Allen Lowrie (10 October 1948 - 30 August 2021) was a Western Australian botanist. He was recognised for his expertise on the genera ''Drosera'' and '' Stylidium''.Council of Heads of Australasian HerbariaResources of Australian Herbaria: Western ...

, Ian D. Cowie, and

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in 2008. It was named in honor of Paul Simmons, who discovered the species in Queensland in 2005.Lowrie, Allen, Cowie, Ian D., Conran, John G. (2008). A new species and section of ''Utricularia'' (Lentibulariaceae) from northern Australia. ''Telopea'', 12(1): 31-46. Lowrie ''et al.'' placed the section and species in subgenus '' Utricularia'' ''sensu'' Taylor (1989) or subgenus '' Bivalvaria'' ''sensu'' Müller & Borsch (2005), though the authors noted that it shares morphologically affinities with

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'' Enskide'' and '' Pleiochasia''. A recent molecular phylogenetic study shows that ''U. simmonsii'' is allied with section ''Enskide'' of subgenus ''Bivalvaria''.Müller KF and Borsch T. (2005). Phylogenetics of ''Utricularia'' (Lentibulariaceae) and molecular evolution of the ''trn''K intron in a lineage with high substitutional rates. ''Plant Systematics and Evolution'', 250: 39-67. Reut MS and Jobson RW. (2010). A phylogenetic study of subgenus Polypompholyx: a parallel radiation of ''Utricularia'' (Lentibulariaceae) throughout Australasia. ''Australian Systematic Botany'', 23: 152-161. Taylor, Peter. (1989). '' The genus Utricularia - a taxonomic monograph''. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XIV: London.

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