Pinguicula alpina L.

 
  • 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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