Scientific Name: Utricularia dichotoma
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Common Name:Fairies' Aprons
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Type:
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Family:LENTIBULARIACEAE
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Flowers:grouped at end of delicate stem pale or deep violet. flowering season extends through cooler months. Wide lip.
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Vegetation Type:swampy areas
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Species List:Fraser Island, Batianoff 87,
Identification Notes
"Description: Terrestrial perennial herb. Leaves linear to obovate, usually 0.3–4 cm long, to 5 mm wide. Traps on stolons; globose or ovoid, 1–5 mm long; mouth lateral. Raceme erect, solitary or several together or in succession, 5–50 cm long, 1–9-flowered, flowers in opposite pairs or whorls of 3; scales absent; bracts and bracteoles similar, basifixed; base ± distinctly but usually only shortly basisolute, 1.5–2.0 mm long. Calyx lobes unequal, circular to ovate, 2–5 mm long. Corolla 12–22 mm long, usually dark violet; lower lip with usually 2 or 3 conspicuous yellow central ridges flanked by less-conspicuous violet ridges; spur cylindrical, shorter than lower lip. " (PlantNET)