Fairy Apron ( Utricularia dichotoma)

This delicate purplish-blue flower about 7 mm wide was borne on slender smooth stalk about 10 cms tall. The petals were labiate and unequal with the larger lower petal forming a wide apron giving it the common name. The leaves were lanceolate but undiscernable in the matted growth of grass and ground cover.
Spotted growing on soft ground at the bottom of a grassy slope which has a tendency to become boggy after rains - national park.