Common name: Fairy Apron
Utricularia dichotoma subsp. aquilonia R.W.Jobson APNI* Description: Terrestrial perennial herb. Stolons numerous, branched. Rhizoids numerous, simple.
Leaves few from base and at stolon nodes, linear to spatulate, with a single vein; apex rounded.
Inflorescences solitary, erect; peduncle 90–350 (–560) mm long; bracts and bracteoles narrowly ovate, apex acute, base strongly gibbous; corolla 10–16 mm long, violet with 2 or 3 prominent yellow ridges basally; upper lip obovate, compressed near the middle, apex entire, rounded; lower lip transversely elliptic, equal to or longer than the corolla spur.
Capsule globose, c. 5 mm long.
Flowering: October–February
Distribution and occurrence: Known only from New South Wales, where it is found in upland swamps and creeks of the Central and Northern Tablelands and heathland swamps of the North Coast. Utricularia dichotoma subsp. aquilonia overlaps in distribution with subsp. fontana in the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, although the two subspecies appear to occupy different habitats.
NSW subdivisions: CT, NC, NT
R.W. Jobson
Text by Australian Systematic Botany 33: 278-310 (2020)
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