Utricularia kumaonensis - Kumaon Bladderwort

Kumaon bladderwort is an annual, tree-dwelling, rock-dwelling or terrestrial, carnivorous herb. 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; spur broadly cylindric, as long as upper sepal, slightly curved, tip blunt. Upper lip is almost quadrate, about 1/2 as long as upper sepal, tip flat to obscurely 2-lobed. Sepal-cup lower lobe oblong, much smaller than upper lobe, tip flat and notched to erose; upper lobe inverted-heart-shaped, about 2 mm, base rounded, tip deeply 2-parted. Flowers are borne in erect, 2-7 cm, 1-3-flowered, hairless cluster atop 0.2-0.3 mm thick stem. Flower-stalks are erect at anthesis but decurved in fruit, round, 2-6 mm, thread-like. Leaves are few, in a rosette at stem base, stalked, hairless; leaf blade broadly obovate, round, or kidney-shaped, 2-6 x 1.5-3 mm, membranous, veins symmetrically branched, base broadly wedge-shaped, margin entire, tip rounded. Capsules are obliquely ovoid, 2-2.5 mm. Kumaon bladderwort is is found among moss on rocks, cliffs, fallen trees, at altitudes of 2600-2700 m, from Himalayas to NW Yunnan and Myanmar. Flowering: July-August.