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Medicinal-Traditional Chinese medicine for its anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties. Ornamental- Ornamental plant in gardens.
Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal
Thrives in wet soil and rocks, rice fields, near sea level to an elevation of 1400 m.
It is annual carnivorous terrestrial herb.
Stem is runner, up to 2.5 cm long, thread-like, branched.
Leaves are thread-like, up to 0.8 cm long, narrow, and blunt-tipped, with a single vein. Numerous kidney-shaped traps, about 0.1 cm across, are stalked and have two subulate appendages.
Flowers are yellow, arranged in erect racemes 2-7 cm long. Each raceme bears 1-5 solitary flowers. Flowers are 0.4-0.8 cm long, with stalks 0.2-0.4 cm long, broadly winged, erect when open, curved when fruiting. Sepals are two, nearly equal, broadly ovate, blunt-tipped, 0.2-0.4 cm long and wide. The upper lip is linear-oblong, rounded, 0.2-0.4 cm long and 0.1-0.2 cm wide. The lower lip is round to obovate, rounded, about 0.2-0.4 cm across. The spur is needle-like, about as long as the lower lip.
Fruit is capsule-like, are ovoid, slightly flattened, about 0.25 cm long and 0.2 cm wide. Seeds are ovoid with net-veined coats.
Flowering: June – December,
Fruiting: July – January.