Utricularia striatula Sm.

Amall annual herb ; up to 5 cm high , epiphytic on trees or rocks , with few capillary rhizoids . Stolons filiform , glabrous , simple , radiating from the base of peduncle . Leaves many , appear in small rosettes at the base , up to 5–8 mm long , 1–3 mm wide , obovate , apex rounded , base tapering into the petiole ; traps lateral , on rhizoids and stolons , ovoid , with a short stalk ± 1 mm , mouth lateral with a dorsal deeply bifid appendage , the distal margin of appendage with multicellular stipitate glands . Inflorescences a raceme , erect , peduncle filiform , ± 3 cm , glabrous ; bracts ± 1 mm , narrowly ovate or oblong , margins irregularly crenate , glandular . Flowers white or mauve with a yellow spot on the throat ; calyx 2-lobed , lobes unequal , 1 . 5-2 mm , upper lobe ± circular , lower lobe smaller , oblong-elliptic ; corolla bilabiate , white , or ± tinged violet and with a yellow spot at base of lower lip , 4-5 mm ; upper ... lip ovate with shortly bifid apex , lower lip ± circular , apex shortly 5-lobed ; palate fringed with hairs , spur about as long as the lower lip . Fruit capsule , globose , obliquely compressed , keeled on the ventral surface , dehiscing by a single ventral slit . Seeds 0 . 25 mm long , numerous , ovoid . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .

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Meloneura purpurea Raf.
Melonura striatula (Sm.) Barnhart
Utricularia orbiculata Wall. ex A.DC.