Utricularia bifidaL.

Bifid Bladderwortbladderwort

WFO wfo-0001230096 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Utricularia bifida, photographed by Hugo Innes
fig. a Hugo Innes, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204859635
Utricularia bifida, photographed by Hugo Innes
fig. b Hugo Innes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191533895
Utricularia bifida, photographed by Toby Y
fig. c Toby Y, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173273451
Utricularia bifida, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. d Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 169185910
Utricularia bifida, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. e Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 160637983
Utricularia bifida, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. f Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 74425045
Utricularia bifida, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館
fig. g 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58825053
Utricularia bifida, photographed by Daniel Krsek
fig. h Daniel Krsek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59749861

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Utricularia bifida is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia, Caroline Is., Marianas China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLaosMalayaMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamNorthern TerritoryQueenslandWestern Australia KoreaNansei-shotoCaroline Is.Marianas
Native distribution of Utricularia bifida, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Northern Territory NTA AUSTRALASIA
Queensland QLD
Western Australia WAU
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
Marianas MRN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 67 in flower of 68 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Utricularia bifida observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 67 of 68 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Askofake recurva (Lour.) Raf.
  • Nelipus bifida (L.) Raf.
  • Philydrum cavaleriei H.Lév.
  • Trixapias capillacea (Willd.) Raf.
  • Utricularia alata Benj.
  • Utricularia antirrhinoides Wall.
  • Utricularia biflora Hayata
  • Utricularia biflora Wall.
  • Utricularia brevicaulis Benj.
  • Utricularia capillacea Willd.
  • Utricularia humilis Vahl
  • Utricularia recurva Lour.
  • Utricularia wallichiana Benj.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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