Utricularia Identification Requested

[bromguy]

Hello everybody,
I am hoping that someone can help me identify this Utricularia. This photo was taken this past January at the Abra Patricia Reserve in San Martin Department of northern Peru.  The reserve is located at about 2300 meters on the eastern slopes of the Andes, in very moist cloud forest. 
I saw this Utricularia growing both as an epiphyte and terrestrially. To the naked eye, the flower is a solid lavender-blue (not lavender and white as it appears in the photo) and has two clearly defined yellow stripes at the nectary.  The entire flower is notably pubescent.
This was one of two Utricularias I saw at this location, the other being a terrestrial species that looked to be U. endressii.  Unfortunately I was not able to get a good shot of that plant.
Any help in identification would be much appreciated!  Thank you!

[tanukimo]

It looks like it could be Utricularia pubescens, although it's hard to tell with only one photo.

[marcel]

Not pubescens. Picture isn't that great but given the location and general shape I would guess U. amethystina. As you have seen the actual plant perhaps you can compare it to a couple of pictures of this species on the photofinder site?

[hcarlton]

The calyx shape doesn't suggest a small flower like amethystina. Looks like an Orchidioides species, actually, or a Foliosa-section species (I'd bet on the former though).

[bromguy]

I am sorry these photos are so poor!  It was very hard to photograph this tiny plant, especially in the rain.  But here are a couple more photos.  You can see in this picture that the flower has a very large clam-shell like calyx.

[bromguy]

And here is the other species I encountered.  U. endressii?

[sykosarah]

Without a really good close up of an open flower, I doubt anyone is going to be able to tell. It doesn't help that bladderworts aren't really big enough to identify them by anything other than a flower. Plus, if you take a picture of a flower in the rain, the water pulls the flower down and makes its shape harder to distinguish.

[bromguy]

Indeed, rain and the fact that I had broken my glasses. Oh well, ...

[RL7836]

The small utric looks like U. jamesoniana to me. The colors are much darker than the clone I grow but similar to the plants in this thread.

You may want to post your pics on CPUK as there are others there who could definitely help confirm ID.

Thanks for sharing the pics!!

[Sean Spence]

Definitely U. jamesoniana.

[Dave Evans]

Dude, collect some seeds! This is a very nice form of U. jamesoniana!!! The flowers are much prettier than the plants we do have in cultivation.

Folks, looks at the tri-part bract, those are rather unique to section Orchidioides:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utricularia_sect._Orchidioides

[sykosarah]

Isn't it kinda poaching to just take seeds like that?

[ICPS-bob]

Feb 28, 2014 15:15:53 GMT sykosarah said:

Isn't it kinda poaching to just take seeds like that?

Whether collecting seeds is legal depends on the laws of that area and country. A review of the ICPS Conservation Policy might be helpful.
www.carnivorousplants.org/statements/conservation.html