Utricularia involvens
A medium-sized terrestrial bladderwort from seasonally wet grasslands and swamps in northern Australia and mainland South-east Asia. Its flower stalks twine around neighbouring grasses and sedges. In the wild it follows the monsoon: it grows and flowers in saturated ground late in the wet season, then the habitat dries out.
Where it grows wild
Wet savanna, swampy flats, sedgelands, creek floodplains and seepage soaks among grasses and sedges, sometimes in low open woodland with paperbarks, Lophostemon and Corymbia. Specimen labels note sites that are seasonally flooded and sometimes underwater.
Mostly lowland; Wikipedia says it reaches 900 m in Malaysia, and GBIF records carry altitudes of 100–1000 m.
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