Nepenthes vieillardii

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Lower pitcher of Nepenthes vieillardii. Cultivated plant.
Lower pitcher of Nepenthes vieillardii. Cultivated plant.
Conservation status

Least concern (LR/lc)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nepenthaceae
Genus: Nepenthes
Species: N. vieillardii
Binomial name
Nepenthes vieillardii
Hook.f. (1873)

Nepenthes vieillardii (after Eugène Vieillard, collector of plants from New Caledonia and Tahiti between 1861 and 1867) is a species of pitcher plant endemic to the island of New Caledonia. Its distribution is the most easterly of any Nepenthes species.

N. vieillardii herbarium specimens.
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N. vieillardii herbarium specimens.

[edit] References

  • Jebb, M. & Cheek, M. 1997. A Skeletal Revision of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae). Blumea 42(1), p. 91.