2.33. Utricularia tricolor – A.St.-Hil., Voyage dans le District des Diamans 2: 418 (1833). [Figs. 2 and 7W]. Terrestrial or helophyte. Aerial spatulate to orbicular leaves. Slender and flexible scape. Basifixed and basally connate bracts and bracteoles, entire margins. Ascending pedicels in fruits. Sepals with inconspicuous nerves, plan and entire margins, hyaline on both sepals. Purple or lilac corolla, white and yellow gibbous palate, entire to 3-crenate lower lip, curved and obtuse or emarginate spur, as long as or longer than and parallel to the lower lip. Bivalvate capsule. Selected material:— Abaíra, Campos de Ouro Fino, 22 January 1992, fl. and fr., D.J.N. Hind 50940 (E, CEPEC, HUEFS, K, MO, SPF); Correntina, Fazenda Jatobá, 08 August 1992, fl. and fr., F. França 774 (CEN); Ibicoara, PNM do Espalhado, Riachão das Pedras, 14 June 2012, fl. and fr., J.A. Siqueira-Filho 2784 (HVASF); Mucugê, Serra de São Pedro, 17 December 1984, fl. and fr., G.P. Lewis 7078 (SPF); Palmeiras, Vale do Capão, trilha do Pati, 25 December 2016, fl. and fr., J. Calvo 7384 (ALCB); Piatã, capelinha na trilha da Serra do Santana, 13 July 2005, fl. and fr., F. Rivadavia 2001 (SPF); Rio de Contas, Pico das Almas, 12 December 2012, fl. and fr., G.C. Delgado-Junior 580 (UFP); São Desidério, Rio Piau ca. 150km SW of Barreiras, 13 April 1966, fl., H.S. Irwin 14768 (NY, UB). Comments:— Utricularia tricolor can be confused with U. amethystina (see comments section in this species). In Bahia state, this species is found only in veredas and 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 243, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.556.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6972832