Utricularia simulans

Utricularia simulans, the fringed bladderwort,^[1] is a small to medium-sized, probably perennial, species of carnivorous plant in the family Lentibulariaceae. Utricularia simulans is native to tropical Africa and the Americas. It grows as a terrestrial plant in damp, sandy soils in open savanna at altitudes from near sea level to 1,575 m (5,167 ft). U. simulans was originally described and published by Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger in 1914.^[2]

Utricularia simulans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Lentibulariaceae
Genus:	Utricularia
Subgenus:	Utricularia subg. Bivalvaria
Section:	Utricularia sect. Aranella
Species:	U. simulans
Binomial name
Utricularia simulans Pilg.
Synonyms
List Polypompholyx bicolor Klotzsch Polypompholyx laciniata var. rubrocalcarata Griseb. Utricularia congesta Steyerm. Utricularia congesta f. deminutiva Steyerm. Utricularia laciniata var. poeppigiana Buscal. Utricularia orinocensis Steyerm. Utricularia surinamensis Buscal.