CPs around Cuiabá, western Brazil

[Fernando Rivadavia]

Hello again,

My friend Marcos Cardoso sent some more pcis of CPs he found around his city, Cuiabá (Mato Grosso state, western Brazil). He visited 2 areas which we've both explored in the past, together & alone: the Chapada dos Guimarães highlands and the lowlands around the town of Santo Antônio do Levergé.

At the Chapada dos Guimarães he didn't find any new species, only new locations. Here are the plants:

D.cayennensis:

Beautiful D.hirtella var.lutescens:

G.aurea & a small form of D.communis native to these highlands:

G.filiformis:

U.neottioides:

U.nigrescens(?):

U.nervosa(?):

Edited April 16, 2008 by Fernando Rivadavia

[Fernando Rivadavia]

U.hispida:

U.simulans:

U.subulata:

At Sto Antonio, he found a few species we'd seen before, here's a look at one of the habitats:

D.sessilifolia:

Edited April 15, 2008 by Fernando Rivadavia

[Fernando Rivadavia]

U.hydrocarpa:

U.foliosa:

And a few species we'd never seen there before:

U.pusilla:

U.nigrescens:

Tons of the rare U.meyeri growing in it's typical habitat, submerged by water. The scapes were up to 60cm in length:

And here's a mountain lion footprint he found at the Chap.Guimarães:

Enjoy,

Fernando Rivadavia

Edited April 16, 2008 by Fernando Rivadavia

[Daniel O.]

Hello Fernando,

really wonderful pictures from your friend Marcos.

First, it seems to be a very dangerous place with these lion footprints.

The D. cayennensis flower is very beautyful, really interesting plant.

The D. hirtella var. lutescens is of course very nice too.

From the Utricularia most i like U. neottioides and U.meyeri, but U. hispida is very nice too, it´s very different in comparison to a plant i´m growing.

The U. simulans flower rembers me a little bit to U. longeciliata.

This region seems to be a very good place for CP´s.

Thanks to Marcos too.

Best regards,

Dani

[Markus]

Hi Fernando,

thank you for sharing those nice photos of your field trip!

I would love to see the flower of this G. aurea.

Cheers,

Markus

[fischermans]

Hello Fernando

Thanks for charing.Those are straight enough pictures of Utricularia and they are wonderfull.

Regards Alexander

[Martin Hingst]

Again- very nice, Fernando.

Came around some rarer utrics many times now by your recent posts! Again I love that U. neottioides very much. I thought it would be a rheophyte, but this looks more like an affixed aquatic here. If so, it would be about time to bring it into cultivation! (any spare seed pot in your herbarium samples maybe? )

And the U. simulans shot is very nice, with the interesting calyx good to be seen!

And once again: a big thanks to Marcos - maybe he will find the way to CPUK some day! (hopefully before the mountain lion finds him )

Regards

Martin

Edited April 15, 2008 by Martin Hingst

[Andreas Fleischmann]

Hi Fernando and Marcos,

Very nice photographs indeed! Just my two cents on some Utricularia IDs:

The U. pusilla looks more like U. nigrescens to me. One good character for this one is the row of sticky droplets down the scape, always emerging from the bracts. In U. pusilla, they are usually limited to the axills where the pedicells are branching from the scape. Any photo of a ripe calyx and capsule could help identifying this plant.

The plant that you regard as an intermediate between U. pusilla and U. trichophylla seems to be U. nervosa (it's identical to the plants of this species I have found in the Gran Sabana of Venezuela). And the plants that you consider to be U. nigrescens are U. nervosa in my opinion, too (just a form with a slightly longer spur, which stil fits in its natural range of variation).

It's always great fun for me to see those small yellow flowered Utrics in the wild, and to puzzle their ID. ;)

All the best,

Andreas

[Fernando Rivadavia]

Hello to all,

Andreas, thanks for the thoughts! Many e-mails have been flying back & forth over the past week between Marco, me & Paulo G. about the ID of these plants!

Martin, I can ask Marcos, but I'm almost sure there must be rocks underneath that mud. I've only very rarily seen this species growing in soil with no rocks.

Dani, U.simulans looks like U.longeciliata because they're very close! :) Two other similar species are U.fimbriata & U.sandwithii.

To everyone, I'll tell Marcos you've enjoyed his pics and travels. But remember, these are HIS pictures, not mine. I am unfortunately very far away from Brazil now...

Best wishes,

Fernando Rivadavia

[Fernando Rivadavia]

Hello again,

It turns out I forgot to include 2 pics...

G.aurea & D.communis at the Chap.Guimarães:

U.simulans at Sto Antonio:

Enjoy,

Fernando Rivadavia

[Daniel O.]

Hi Fernando,

again nice pictures.

Dani, U.simulans looks like U.longeciliata because they're very close! :) Two other similar species are U.fimbriata & U.sandwithii.

Thanks , good to know.

Best regards,

Dani

[Martin Hingst]

It turns out I forgot to include 2 pics...

Two very nice ones! This simulans-shot is even nicer than the above one - and: fruiting calices - very hungry ones!

[Fernando Rivadavia]

Hi guys,

I just changed some names above (after numerous parallel discussions) & switched a pic which was out of place. :)

See ya,

Fernando Rivadavia

[BobZ]

Fernando, thank you for posting the U. meyeri photos. They are the first that I have been able to find.

[Fernando Rivadavia]

Hey Bob,

I'm glad! :)

I'd only seen this species twice, and that was before digital, hehehe! I'm planning to scan all my pre-digital pics, so I might have a few new ones to add to your "never-before" list! :) I remember one off the top of my head: U.heterochroma.

Take care,

Fernando Rivadavia

[Melly]

Ola Amigo!!!

always spectacular photos!!!!!!!

many kiss ;)

[Fernando Rivadavia]

Ciao Melly,

Grazie tanto! ;)

Molti bacci,

Fernando Rivadavia