Scientific Name: Utricularia aurea (Utricularia flexuosa)
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Type:
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Family:LENTIBULARIACEAE
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Flowers:yellow, short flower stalks - May
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Vegetation Type:growing on rafts of vegetation floating in streams and lagoons. Freshwater wetlands.
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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)