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Utricularia unifolia
Utricularia unifolia is a medium-sized perennial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. U. unifolia is native to Central America and western South America . It was originally published and described by Hipolito Ruiz Lopez and Jose Antonio Pavon Jimenez in 1797 and later considered a synonym of Utricularia alpina until Peter Taylor's 1989 monograph on the genus where he restored the species as distinct from U. alpina. It grows as a terrestrial or epiphytic plant on moss-covered trees, rocks, or banks in cloud forests at altitudes between and . U. unifolia usually produces only one leaf (rarely two or three), which is where the species epithet "unifolia" is derived from.Taylor, Peter. (1989). The genus Utricularia: A taxonomic monograph. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XIV: London.
See also
List of Utricularia species
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