Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Utricularia antennifera
Lentibulariaceae Rich.
Utricularia antennifera P.Taylor , legitimate, scientific
Taylor, P. (1986), New taxa in Utricularia (Lentibulariaceae). Kew Bulletin 41(1): 2 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Western Australia, Mitchell Plateau, C.R. Dunlop 5320 (holotypus K; isotypi CANB, DNA, MEL, PERTH)."
Green, J.W. (18 October 1987), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2, Suppl. 5: 13 [secondary reference]
Taylor, P. (1989), The Genus Utricularia - a taxonomic monograph. Kew Bulletin Addit. ser. 14: 167-169 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA
Bennett, E.M. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Lentibulariaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 860, Fig. 266A, 267A [secondary reference]
Lowrie, A. (December 2013), Carnivorous Plants of Australia Magnum Opus 3: 934-937, Figs 12.4, 12.5 (map), 12.5A-E [secondary reference]
  • Etymology: "The epithet, antennifera, is from the Latin alteration of antemna (sail-yard; the pole supporting the sail of a sailing ship), The term was used by Aristotle in the plural antenmae to translate the Greek keraioi (paired horns of insects), being the thin, movable sensory organs or 'feelers' found in pairs on the heads of some organisms and fero-to bear, in reference to its long lateral, semi-erect, antennae-like appendages towering above the main body of the flower."