Botanical name: Utricularia recta    Family: Lentibulariaceae (Bladderwort family)
Synonyms: Utricularia wallichiana var. firmula, Utricularia scandens var. firmula

Erect Bladderwort is an annual insectivorous herb with rhizoids up to 1.5 cm long, thick, glandular, branches up to 3 mm long, papillose; runners up to 8 cm long, sparsely branched. Flower racemes are up to 20 cm long, erect, round, each up to 10-flowered. Flowers are up to 1.5 cm long, yellow, purple streaked; upper lip up to 4 mm long, oblong, constricted at middle, crested across on ventral surface, fringed with hairs at lower margin, blunt at tip; lower lip up to 6 mm across, nearly round to ovate, hairy in throat, swollen at base, rounded to flat at tip; spur up to 5 mm long, curved and pointed at tip. flower-stalks 3-6 mm long, erect, winged. Sepals are unequal; upper one about 3.2 x 2.7 mm, broadly ovate, tapering at tip; lower one about 3 x 1.5 mm, oblong to inverted-lanceshaped, or obovoid, bitoothed at tip. Foliar organs up to 5 cm long, linear, gland-dotted, 1-nerved, rounded or blunt at tip. Traps are about 1 mm across, nearly spherical, slightly compressed. Terrestrial herb in wet or marshy places in open ground, from Himalaya to China (NW. Yunnan), up to an elevation of 3,300 m. Flowering: June-October.

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