• Family : LENTIBULARIACEAE
  (Bladderwort Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : UTRICULARIA FAMILY
• Family (as per The APG System III) : LENTIBULARIACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Utricularia orbiculata Wall. ex A. DC.; Utricularia glochidiata Wight
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Utricularia striatula Sm.
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : On wet rocks in grasslands
• Comments / notes : Occasional on hills above 1000m on vertical perennially wet rocks.
• Flower, Fruit : October-March
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chittoor district
  • Karnataka : Hassan district, Mysuru district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Udupi district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Odisha : Keonjhar district
  • Tamil Nadu : Megamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Theni district
• Native : Tropical Asia
• World Distribution : Tropical & S. Africa, India, Indo-China,Malesia
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2011 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 4; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2;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; Ravichandran V personal observation 2014 Nov.; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; 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 striatula. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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