2.20. Utricularia neottioides A.St.-Hil. & Girard, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences 7: 869 (1838). [Figs. 1 and 7G]. Rheophyte. Submerged, verticillate and capillary leaves. Slender and slightly stiff scape. Peltate bracts, entire margins, absent bracteoles. Ascending pedicels in fruits. Sepals with inconspicuous nerves, plan and entire margins. White corolla, non-gibbous palate, trilobed lower lip, obsolete spur, shorter than and parallel to the lower lip. Capsule dehiscing by a ventral pore. Selected material:— s.l., “Habitat in udis ad R. Fermozo. Provinciae Pernambucanae” (currently Bahia territory), s.d., fl. and fr., C.F.P. von Martius s.n. (M); Abaíra, Serra da Mesa, 15 July 2005, fl. and fr., F. Rivadavia 2019 (SPF); Água Quente, Arredores do Pico das Almas, 30 October 1988, fl. and fr., S.A. Mori 13619 (CEPEC); Gentio do Ouro, Serra do Assuruá, 1839, fl. and fr., J.S. Blanchet 2864 (NY); Mucugê, PNM de Mucugê, rio Cumbuca, 25 September 2004, fl. and fr., A. Rapini 1151 (HUEFS); Piatã, Serra de Santana, 13 July 2005, fl. and fr., F. Rivadavia 2005 (SPF); Rio de Contas, Pico das Almas, 22 April 2004, fl. and fr., A.M. Amorim 4028 (HUEFS, SPF). Comments:— Utricularia neottioides can be readily distinguished from all the other congeners in Bahia state by its rheophytic life form, white corolla with non-gibbous palate, trilobed lower lip and obsolete spur. In Bahia state, this species is found only in campos rupestres.

Published as part of Guedes, Felipe Martins, Miranda, Vitor Fernandes Oliveira & Alves, Marccus, 2022, Diversity and distribution of Lentibulariaceae in Bahia state, Brazil: implications for phytogeography and conservation, pp. 213-255 in Phytotaxa 556 (3) on page 238, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.556.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6972832