Botanical name:Utricularia kumaonensisFamily:Lentibulariaceae (Bladderwort family) Synonyms: Diurospermum album
Kumaon Bladderwort is small annual carnivorous plant
that grows on rocks, other plants or on the ground. Leaves are few, in
a rosette at the base of flowering stem, stalked, hairless. Leaves are
broadly obovate, round, or kidney-shaped, 2-6 x 1.5-3 mm.
Inflorescences are erect, 2-7 cm, 1-3-flowered, hairless. Flower-stalks
are erect at anthesis but decurved in fruit, round, 2-6 mm,
thread-like. Lower sepal is oblong, much smaller than upper sepals;
upper sepal intervet-heart-shaped, about 2 mm, base rounded, tip deeply
2-parted. Flowers are white, with a basal yellow spot and mauve lobes
on lower lip, 3-5 mm; lower lip nearly round, 5-lobed, middle lobe much
larger than lateral lobes. Kumaon Bladderwort is found in the
Himalayas, NW Yunnan, Bhutan, N Myanmar, Nepal, at altitudes of
2600-2700 m. Flowering: July-August.
Identification credit: N Arun Kumar
Photographed in Dzongri, West Sikkim.
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