Utricularia podadena
A small terrestrial bladderwort from marshy upland grassland in south-central Africa, and the only species in section Candollea. Its flowers are covered in long stalked glandular hairs, which makes it unlike any other Utricularia. It is known from only a handful of herbarium collections and is not known to be in cultivation, so everything below is inferred from those collections and from general practice with seasonal African grassland bladderworts.
Where it grows wild
Marsh grassland (dambo) on upland plateaus, growing among grasses such as Loudetia simplex and Hyparrhenia rufa in wet, open ground. Collections come from Chindola Dambo near Zomba in Malawi and from the Uzondo Plateau in Tanzania.
Wikipedia gives about 1000 m; the one GBIF record with an altitude is at 1550 m.
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