Pinguicula lippoldii
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Pinguicula lippoldii is a carnivorous plant from the genus of butterflies ( Pinguicula ) inthe hose family (Lentibulariaceae).
description
Pinguicula lippoldii are perennial, herbaceous plants , whether they belong to the tropical-heterophyllous or the tropical-homophyllous growth type of the fatty herbs cannot be said at the moment. They grow as down-to-earth rosettes, in bloom they reach heights of up to 8 centimeters, in fruit up to 10 centimeters. Numerous, comparatively strong roots emerge from its short rhizome . The leaf rosette is composed of six to eight (rarely up to twelve) simple, yellow-green leaves with an elongated-round to spatulate outline, which are 25 to 32 (40) long and 7 to 10 millimeters wide. The parallel, full-margined leaf margins are unusually not curled upwards, but rather slightly towards the ground. The leaf surface is densely covered with both sessile and stalked glandular hairs, the base of the leaf is flattened.
The one or two upright inflorescence axes are 7 to 9 (4 to 10) centimeters high, around 0.5 millimeters in diameter, green to reddish and faintly covered with sessile and stalked glands, but later almost glabrous. During flowering and fruiting, the inflorescence axis is almost completely upright. The pink-red flowers are terminal single flowers, two-lipped and 15 to 22 millimeters long without a spur, their lobes are bent outwards. The calyx is greenish to purple and slightly covered with glandular hairs. The upper lip is around 2.5 millimeters long and three-lobed deep, the individual lobes are egg-shaped, spatulate or oblong-round, their tips are rounded. The lower lip, which is around 2.5 to 4 millimeters long, is slightly trimmed or finely serrated twice at its tip, and the perforation extends to around one eighth of the lower lip.
The rose-red crown is two-lipped, the lobes are rounded at the tip and do not overlap. They are of unequal length, the spatulate to inverted-egg-shaped elongated-round middle lobe of the lower lip is around 12 millimeters long and 10 millimeters wide, always significantly longer than the inverted-egg-shaped elongated-round lateral ones (around 9 millimeters long and 8 millimeters wide) and inverted egg-shaped to spatulate upper lobes (around 8 millimeters long and 7 millimeters wide). The throat is finely haired with multicellular hair, at the end of which there is hardly a recognizable capsule cell, the trumpet-shaped corolla tube is 7 to 9 (rarely from 5) millimeters long.
distribution
Pinguicula lippoldii is endemic to eastern Cuba in the Sierra Cristal mountain range and the Cochillas del Moa at altitudes between 600 and 1000 meters. It thrives there near watercourses in moist and rocky locations.
Systematics and botanical history
Pinguicula lippoldii was first described at the end of 2007 by Siegfried Jost Casper on the basis of herbarium material that had already been collected in 1976 by a working group under Johannes Bisse and previously identified as Pinguicula benedicta . The species epithet honors the botanist Hans Lippold for his contribution to the study of Cuban flora.
literature
- S. Jost Casper : Pinguicula lippoldii nova spec. and Pinguicula toldensis nova spec. - two endemic Pinguicula species (Lentibulariaceae) from East Cuba new to science. In: Wulfenia. 14, 2007, ISSN 1561-882X , pp. 75-96 .