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Geographic Range [top]
Range Description: This species has a pan-tropical distribution, extending northwards into eastern and western Canada and USA, Spain, Portugal, North Africa, Israel, China and Japan and southwards to Argentina, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. It also occurs as an introduction into other European countries and as a common weed of aquaria and botanic gardens throughout the world (Taylor 1989).
Countries occurrence:
Native:
Algeria; Angola (Angola); Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina (Buenos Aires, Chaco, Córdoba, Corrientes, Jujuy, Misiones, Salta, Santa Fé, Tucumán); Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia); Bahamas; Bangladesh; Belize; Bolivia, Plurinational States of; Botswana; Brazil (Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraná, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo); Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Canada (British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec); Central African Republic; Chad; China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Henan, Hunan, Yunnan); Colombia (Colombia (mainland), Colombian Caribbean Is.); Congo; Costa Rica; Côte dIvoire; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Ethiopia; French Guiana; Gabon; Ghana; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; India (Andaman Is., Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nicobar Is., Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal); Israel; Jamaica; Japan; Kenya; Liberia; Madagascar; Malawi; Mali; Martinique; Mauritius; Mexico (Campeche, Chiapas, Coahuila, Durango, Jalisco, México State, Michoacán, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán); Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia; Nepal; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Niger; Nigeria; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Portugal (Portugal (mainland)); Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico (main island)); Rwanda; Senegal; Sierra Leone; South Africa (Eastern Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape Province, Western Cape); Spain (Spain (mainland)); Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname; Taiwan, Province of China; Tanzania, United Republic of; Trinidad and Tobago; Uganda; United States (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin); Uruguay; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of (Venezuela (mainland), Venezuelan Antilles); Zambia; Zimbabwe
Introduced:
Hungary; United Kingdom (Great Britain)
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Population [top]
Population: This species has a very broad global distribution and there is no evidence that it is decline throughout any major part of its range. It also occurs as an introduction in a number of areas.
Current Population Trend: Unknown
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Habitat and Ecology [top]
Habitat and Ecology: This species occurs in shallow, still or slowly-flowing water, or in mud in ditches, pools, lakes, river backwaters, bogs, swamps and marshes. It also frequently occurs in deep water but not flowering unless supported on mats of living or dead vegetation, usually at low altitudes but ascending to 250 m asl (Taylor 1989).
Systems: Terrestrial; Freshwater
Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat: No
Use and Trade [top]
Use and Trade: This species is very widely grown for the horticultural trade.
Threats [top]
Major Threat(s): There is no identified threat for the species.
Conservation Actions [top]
Conservation Actions: There is no conservation action known for the species.
Citation: Lansdown, R.V. 2014. Utricularia gibba. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T164362A63304849. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-2.RLTS.T164362A63304849.en. Downloaded on 10 February 2017.
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