Utricularia lateriflora

Terrestrial perennial; stolons to c. 5 cm long. Leaves few, narrow-obovate, to c. 5 cm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide. Traps numerous on rhizoids, stolons and petioles, ovoid, 0.5–0.7 mm long. Racemes 1–several, 3–30 cm long, mostly 1–5-flowered; sterile bracts often numerous, smaller than fertile bracts; fertile bracts basifixed, ovate, c. 1 mm long; bracteoles linear, longer than bracts; calyx-lobes subequal, elliptic to broad-ovate, c. 2 mm long. Corolla 4–12 mm long, pale lilac, mauve or violet with a white or yellow spot at base of lower lip; upper lip ovate, truncate and deeply emarginate; lower lip larger, c. circular in outline, rounded to retuse; palate with a slightly raised verrucose rim; spur narrow-conical, slightly longer than lower lip. Capsule globose, c. 3 mm diam.; seeds globose, c. 0.25 mm diam. Flowers mostly Oct.–Feb.