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Utricularia biloba R.Br.
Family Lentibulariaceae
Common name: Moth Bladderwort

Utricularia biloba R.Br. APNI*

Description: Terrestrial or subaquatic perennial herb.

Leaves usually 0.5–5 cm long, the smaller ones simple, the larger leaves 2–3-pinnately divided.

Traps on stolon branches and leaves; obliquely broad-ovoid, 0.5–1.5 mm long; mouth lateral. Raceme erect, solitary, 10–45 cm long, 2–20-flowered; apically congested, lax below; scales few, similar to bracts; bracts basisolute, 1.5–2.5 mm long; bracteoles absent. Calyx lobes unequal, circular or transversely elliptic 1.5–2 mm long. Corolla 7–10 mm long, dark blue-violet with 2 white streaks at base of lower lip; spur cylindrical, about as long as lower lip.


Flowering: February–March

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in wet sand and shallow water in coastal heath, north from Royal N.P.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by R. Rowe & E. A. Brown
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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