- Family : LENTIBULARIACEAE
(Bladderwort Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : UTRICULARIA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Lentibulariaceae
- Synonym(s) : Pinguicula alba Kuhl ex Hoppe; Pinguicula alpestris Pers.; Pinguicula auricolor Arv.-Touv.; Pinguicula brachyloba Schult.; Pinguicula flavescens Flörke ex Hoppe; Pinguicula gelida Schur; Pinguicula pallida Turcz.; Pinguicula purpurea Willd.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Pinguicula alpina L.
- Common name : Alpine Butterwort
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Grassy flush, bogs, moss on moist gravel; scree, by stream rocks in spray of waterfall; 3000 - 4880 m. altitude
- Key identification features : Herbs; Leaves radical, subsessile, elliptic, sparsely hairy above; Flowers solitary on scapes, white, yellow spotted; spur cylindric; Capsules ellipsoid.
- Flower, Fruit : May-September
- Distribution :
- Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
- Sikkim : North Sikkim (Mangan) district,East Sikkim (Gangtok) district
- Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
- Native : Austria, Baltic States, Bhutan, Buryatiya, China, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Irkutsk, Italy, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North European Russi, Norway, Poland, Qinghai, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tibet
- Exotic/Native : Native
- World Distribution : Subarctic and Subalpine Europe to Siberia, Himalaya to Central China
- Literature :
- Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 190
- GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 2: Part 3. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 1334-1336
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 222
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Pinguicula alpina. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.
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