Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Utricularia gibba
Common name
Floating Bladderwort
Family
Lentibulariaceae
Where found
In shallow still or slow-flowing water, in pools, swamps, and marshes. Mainly coast and the eastern edge of the ranges north from Tahmoor. Occasionally coastal farther south.
Notes
Annual or perennial herb with branched threadlike stems to about 0.2 m long, stoloniferous. Insect traps on the stems. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5–1.5 cm long, divided from the base into 2 approximately equal threadlike segments, these again sparsely divided into 4, rarely into 8 ultimate segments. Leaves rarely undivided. Flowers yellow, often with reddish-brown lines, 4–25 mm long, 2-lipped, the upper lip broadly oval to almost round, the lower lip slightly smaller, round to transversely elliptic, with a 2-lobed basal swelling. Flowers in a single cluster of 1–12 flowers, or 2 or more clusters arising together or in succession. Clusters erect, mostly 1–20 cm long, usually above the water. Flowers Nov.–Jun.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Utricularia~gibba (accessed 10 February, 2021)
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