Utricularia striatulaSm.

WFO wfo-0000417422 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Utricularia striatula, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-26 / obs. 177501998
Utricularia striatula, photographed by luluchouette
fig. b luluchouette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179266619
Utricularia striatula, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 161432023
Utricularia striatula, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 155826605
Utricularia striatula, photographed by Vijay Karthick
fig. e Vijay Karthick, CC0 1.0 / obs. 154290385
Utricularia striatula, photographed by Vijay Karthick
fig. f Vijay Karthick, CC0 1.0 / obs. 154507815
Utricularia striatula, photographed by Yi CHEN
fig. g Yi CHEN, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145326711
Utricularia striatula, photographed by Agnes Trekker
fig. h Agnes Trekker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 125643424

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Native range 45 botanical countries

Regions where Utricularia striatula is native: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Oman, Taiwan, Tibet, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam AngolaBurundiCameroonCentral African RepublicChadDR CongoEthiopiaGabonGhanaGuineaGulf of Guinea Is.Ivory CoastLiberiaNigeriaSierra LeoneTanzaniaUgandaZambiaChina South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanOmanTaiwanTibetAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Utricularia striatula, 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
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Angola ANG AFRICA
Burundi BUR
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
DR Congo ZAI
Ethiopia ETH
Gabon GAB
Ghana GHA
Guinea GUI
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Ivory Coast IVO
Liberia LBR
Nigeria NGA
Sierra Leone SIE
Socotra SOC
Tanzania TAN
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Oman OMA
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

Not drawn on the map: Socotra. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 138 in flower of 145 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Utricularia striatula 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. 138 of 145 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 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.

  • Lemnopsis minioides Zipp.
  • Meloneura purpurea Raf.
  • Melonura striatula (Sm.) Barnhart
  • Utricularia anthropophora Ridl.
  • Utricularia glochidiata Wight
  • Utricularia harlandii Oliv. ex Benth.
  • Utricularia orbiculata Wall.
  • Utricularia orbiculata Wall. ex A.DC.
  • Utricularia philetas R.D.Good
  • Utricularia pusilla J.Graham
  • Utricularia rosulata Benj.
  • Utricularia striatula var. minor Ridl.
  • Utricularia taikankoensis Yamam.

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. 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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