A rare carnivorous plant ‘Utricularia’ has been found at which National Park…

Concept

National parks and wildlife sanctuaries in Rajasthan are often reported for specific flora/fauna sightings that get recorded by state forest authorities and subsequently referenced in current-affairs and competitive-exam questions. Utricularia (bladderworts) is a genus of insectivorous plants, most species of which are aquatic or wetland-dwelling, trapping tiny organisms with bladder-like suction traps in standing or slow freshwater such as marshes and ponds.

Application

Among Rajasthan's national parks, Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur is the state's principal wetland protected area — a UNESCO World Heritage network of marshes, ponds, and seasonally flooded grassland originally developed as a royal duck-hunting reserve and now a habitat for migratory waterfowl. This wetland setting is well suited to an aquatic species of Utricularia, and the plant's presence there has been formally recorded by the state's forest and wetland authorities. The RSSB Patwar 2025 Shift 1 official answer key confirms Keoladeo National Park as the location for this discovery.

Cross-check

The recorded discovery and the official answer key are the decisive evidence for this item; habitat differences between the offered parks corroborate this without being treated as an absolute rule, since some dry-forest reserves do contain limited water bodies. Darrah National Park (part of the Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve) and Ranthambore National Park are primarily dry deciduous forest tiger habitats, while Desert National Park is an arid sand-dune and scrubland tract — none of them is reported as the location of this Utricularia discovery, whereas Keoladeo National Park's wetland ecosystem and the official record together confirm it as the correct location.