Plant Details

Scientific Name: Utricularia aurea (Utricularia flexuosa)
  • Type: submerged aquatic Herb
  • Family: LENTIBULARIACEAE
  • Flowers: yellow, short Flower stalks - May
  • Vegetation Type: growing on rafts of Vegetation floating in streams and lagoons. Freshwater wetlands.
  • Species List: Fraser Island, aquatic Plant,

Identification Notes

"Description: Suspended aquatic Perennial Herb. "Leaves semicircular in outline, 1–8 cm long, multipinnate with 3–5 primary segments. "Traps on Leaves; obliquely Ovoid, 1–4 mm long; Dimorphic, mouth Lateral or Basal. Raceme erect, Emergent, 5–25 cm long, 5–10-flowered; Axis initially short, elongating in Fruit; scales absent; Bracts Basifixed, 1–2 mm long; Bracteoles absent. Calyx lobes subequal, Ovate, 2–3 mm long, elongating to 9 mm long in Fruit. Corolla 10–15 mm long, pale yellow with reddish brown Veins, externally sparsely to densely hairy or rarely ± Glabrous; Spur cylindrical, about as long as the lower lip." (PlantNET) 

  • Utricularia aurea (Utricularia flexuosa)
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