Utricularia graminifolia is a small perennial

Perennial plant

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 carnivorous plant

Carnivorous plant

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 that belongs to the genus

Genus

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 Utricularia. It is native to Asia

Asia

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, where it can be found in Burma, China

China

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, India

India

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, Sri Lanka

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, and Thailand

Thailand

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. U. graminifolia grows as a terrestrial or affixed subaquatic plant in wet soils or in marshes, usually at lower altitudes but ascending to 1500 m (4,921 ft) in Burma. It was originally described and published by Martin Vahl

Martin Vahl (botanist)

Martin Henrichsen Vahl was a Danish-Norwegian botanist and zoologist.He studied botany in Copenhagen and in Uppsala under Carolus Linnaeus. He edited Flora Danica fasc. XVI-XXI , Symbolæ Botanicæ I-III , Eclogæ Americanæ I-IV and Enumeratio Plantarum I-II...

 in 1804. It has also recently been grown in planted aquaria.

Synonyms

• Utricularia acuta Benj.
• [U. caerulea Oliv.]
• U. caerulea var. graminifolia (Vahl) P.K.Bhattach.
• U. conferta Wight
  Robert Wight
  Robert Wight was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who spent 30 years in India. He studied botany in Edinburgh under John Hope. He was the director of the Botanic Garden in Madras. He made use of local artists to make illustrations of the plants around him...
  
  
• U. equiseticaulis Blatt. & McCann
• U. parviflora Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.
  James Edward Smith
  Sir James Edward Smith was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world...
  
  
• U. pedicellata Wight
• U. purpurascens Graham
• U. subrecta Lace
• U. uliginoides Wight
• [U. uliginosa Wight]
• Vesiculina graminifolia (Vahl) Raf.