thank you for your mail;
it^s right, we^ve seen countless Lentibulariaceae in Venezuela;
Genlisea:
G. repens, G. pygmea, G. roraimae, G. guyanensis;
BTW, NOT G. roraimae is the large one but G. guyanensis; G. roraimae is
growing usually on the top of the tepuys and looks similar to G. pygmea
and G. repens. G. guyanensis we have fond in a small swamp in the
savannah and the leaves are linear (remembering a little bit at
vallisneria) and up to maybe 10 cm in length! It has violet flowers at a
quite long flower stalk; the plants did not look quite healthy, maybe
they are growing seasonally; the next relative of it is G.
sanariaponensis, which is growing in the S-Western parts of Venezuela in
Puerto Ayacucho; unfortunately we did not find it;
It exist a fine key of Genlisea of Venezuela, when I remember right, it
is from Steyermark; if you want, I can send you a copy;
The most impressive Utricularia, which we have seen in Venezuela were U.
humboldtii (2 distinctive different forms from Roraima, Ilu and Duida
(published by Steyermark as 2 different varietes, but united again), the
wonderful U. quelchii, U. campbelliana, U. alpina and countless small
species with mostly yellow, sometimes white or violet flowers. Another
quite outstanding specie was U. fimbriata with leaves ordered in a
rosette, remembering a little bit at Genlisea; another specie grew
exactly at the edge (in water!) of a maybe 20 - 40 meter waterfall;
sorry, when we have been there, in 1986, we did not determine all the
smaller unspectacular species; we collected some samples of living
material, but we couldn^t keep them alive over the years. I still have
some slides of the Utrics, but I fear it won^t help to determine it.
It would be great, to meet you in January; In Germany, we are not too far
from each other (Jan, Andreas, Thomas Carow and me are maybe 250 km from
each other; Jan is fortunately in the same town with me!); when you are
in Munich maybe you
should have a look to the Botanic Garden of Munich; they have a quite
nice collection.
All the best
from Germany
Joe
P.S.
I will look for my file on disc; if not I send your friend a list of my
plants by snail-mail.