• Family : LENTIBULARIACEAE
  (Bladderwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : UTRICULARIA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LENTIBULARIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Utricularia conferta Wight; Utricularia caerulea sensu Clarke 1884, non L. 1753.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Utricularia graminifolia Vahl
• Common name : Grass-leaved Bladder-wort
• Vernacular name : Choothumkula, Kakkapoovu, Narumpannal (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Moist places in grasslands
• Comments / notes : On hills above 900m in perennially moist fields, rocks and rivers.
• Flower, Fruit : September-April
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
• Native : China, India, Myanmar, Sri lanka
• World Distribution : India, Sri lanka, China
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. ; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Utricularia graminifolia. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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