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Utricularia identification

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I have been unsure about the identity of this plant since getting it. I got it as Utricularia nelumbifolia from Carnivoria but all the leaves it has produced have been reniform.

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However I don't think it is reniformis because it produces runners, which I have never seen reniformis do.

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The bladders also look different from reniformis bladders and are larger. They look somewhat like humboldtii bladders to me.

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I suspect that it is Utricularia nelumbifolia x reniformis, but after seeing the 5th and 6th posts in this thread I am not so sure.

The largest leaf the plant has produced is still less than an inch long, so could it be possible that I have true nelumbifolia?
 

Lil Stinkpot

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It does look like an immature or stressed U. nelumbifolia. Give it a bit of time to settle, and see what it does.
 

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<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/61904224@N05/12146706714/in/datetaken/" title="U. nelumbifolia"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3685/12146706714_75b94f16d9_z.jpg" width="481" height="640" alt="U. nelumbifolia"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Old photo of my U. nelumbifolia, at this size the leaves were reniform

<img src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/490/19778644955_6c6b9d8ea1_z.jpg" width="640" height="427" alt="U. nelumbifolia seedlings"></a><script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Seedlings also make reniform leaves

In the photo with the runner, it looks like you have the beginning of a peltate leaf there, too.
 
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