
Utricularia albocaerulea. (ground or terrestrial bladderwort).
White-Blue Bladderwort is a carnivorous perennial herb, found growing in damp soil and on wet rocks.
Plant Description:
Flowers are 9-13.5 mm long, pinkish blue or occasionally almost white, yellow in throat, papillose. Upper lip is 4.5-6 x 3-4.5 mm, obovate, notched to flat at tip. Lower lip is must larger, 9-13 x 11-15 mm, ovate to obovate, hairy along throat, white and bigibbous at base, flat to ntched at tip. Spur is 6-9 mm long, conical, slightly curved, pointed at tip.
raps are 1-1.5 mm across, subdimorphic, those on foliar organs large, elsewhere small, subglobose. Capsules are about 4.5 x 3 mm, compressed, ovate to circular in out line. . White-Blue Bladderwort is endemic to the Western Ghats Flowering: October-December..
(But we found this near August and September).
Western Ghats of India

"Utricularia albocaerulea" is a small, probably annual, carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus "Utricularia". It is endemic to Maharashtra, India and is only known from a few locations in the southwestern part of this state. "U. albocaerulea" grows as a terrestrial plant in damp soil and on wet rocks.
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