Nepenthes distillatoria

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Nepenthes distillatoria
Upper pitcher of Nepenthes distillatoria. Sri Lanka.
Upper pitcher of Nepenthes distillatoria. Sri Lanka.
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nepenthaceae
Genus: Nepenthes
Species: N. distillatoria
Binomial name
Nepenthes distillatoria
L., 1753
Distribution of N. distillatoria.
Distribution of N. distillatoria.
Synonyms
  • Bandura zeylanica
    Burm. ex Brongn., 1824 nom. illeg.
  • Nepenthes chapmanii
    Balakr., 1970
  • Nepenthes destillatoria
    Danser, 1928 sphalm. typogr.
  • Nepenthes distillatoria
    auct. non L.: Brion, 1855
    [=N. madagascariensis]
  • Nepenthes distillatoria
    auct. non L.: Jack, 1835
    [=N. gracilis]
  • Nepenthes distillatoria
    auct. non L.: Jeanneney, 1894
    [=N. vieillardii]
  • "Planta mirabilis distillatoria"
    H.N.Grimm, 1682
  • "Nepenthes ceylanicum flore minore"
    J.P.Breyne, 1689
  • "Utricaria vegetabilis zeylanensium"
    Plukenet, 1696

Nepenthes distillatoria (New Latin from Latin: destillo = to distill, -oria = adjectival ending; something from which a liquid is distilled, i.e., pitcher) was the first species of tropical pitcher plant to be formally named. It was originally described by H. N. Grimm in 1682 under the name "Planta mirabilis distillatoria". Linnaeus used the original species epithet when naming N. distillatoria in 1753.

N. distillatoria is endemic to Sri Lanka and is the only Nepenthes species recorded from the island. It grows in waterlogged open scrub, along road embankments and other cleared areas, and in forest. N. distillatoria occurs from sea-level to 700 m altitude.[1]

Due to its isolation, N. distillatoria has no known natural hybrids. No forms or varieties have been described.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Jebb, M. & M. Cheek 1997. A Skeletal Revision of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae). Blumea 42(1): 36.