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.