Utricularia cochleata

{{Short description|Species of carnivorous plant}}

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|genus = Utricularia

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|parent = Utricularia sect. Steyermarkia

|species = cochleata

|authority = C.P.Bove

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Utricularia cochleata is a small, bryophyllous, lithophytic carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. It is endemic to Brazil and is only known from the type location in Goiás. It grows as a terrestrial lithophyte on mossy rocks within range of the spray of a waterfall. The species epithet cochleata refers to the shell-like shape of the recurved corolla. U. cochleata was first collected in 2004 and formally described by Claudia Petean Bove in 2008.Bove, C.P. 2008. [http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbb/v31n4/v31n4a02.pdf A new species of Utricularia (Lentibulariaceae) from central Brazil.] Revista Brasileira de Botânica, 31: 555-558.