Thulin, M. (2006) Lentibulariaceae in Flora of Somalia 3: 301-302
Plants aquatic, terrestrial, or epiphytic, often without roots, but always with specialized organs (traps) to caoture small organisms. Leaves more or less in rosettes or scattered, entire or divided. Inflorescences bracteate racemes or solitary flowers. Flowers bilaterall symmetric, bisexual; calyces 2-4(-5)-lobed; corolas united, 2-lipped, usually spurred, the upper lips usually with raised palates; stamens 2, inserted at the base of the corollas; anthers with 2 thecae, these usually conflouent and dehiscinb by a common slit; ovaries superior, 1-celled, usually with numerous ovules on basal plants; styles usually short; stigmas more or less 2-lobed. Fruits capsules, dehiscing by valves or pores or circumscissile, rarely indehiscent; seeds usually minute, without endosper; embryos scarcely differentiated.
The family Lentibulariaceae includes three genera and about 280 species. It is almost cosmopolitan its distribution, but is most abundant in the tropics.
Only one genus is present in Somaliland and Somalia, Utricularia.