Nepenthes macrophylla

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Nepenthes macrophylla
Nepenthes macrophylla growing on Mount Trus Madi. The irregular peristome may suggest interspecific hybridisation with N. lowii or N. × trusmadiensis.
Nepenthes macrophylla growing on Mount Trus Madi. The irregular peristome may suggest interspecific hybridisation with N. lowii or N. × trusmadiensis.
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nepenthaceae
Genus: Nepenthes
Species: N. macrophylla
Binomial name
Nepenthes macrophylla
(Marabini) Jebb & Cheek, 1997

Distribution of N. macrophylla.

Nepenthes macrophylla (Latin: macro = large, phylla = leaves) is a species of pitcher plant and a type of carnivorous plant belonging to the family Nepenthaceae, known only from a very restrictive elevation on Mount Trus Madi in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. It is an ultrahighland mountain plant requiring cool temperatures with high humidity at night. N. macrophylla was once thought to be a form and subspecies of N. edwardsiana, but is much larger than that species (although its pitchers are smaller) and differs in peristome morphology. The pitchers grow to 28 cm high and bear an impressive spiked peristome.

[edit] References

  • Marabini, J. 1987. "Eine neue Unterart von Nepenthes edwardsiana Hook.fil. sowie Anmerkungen zur Taxonomie der Gattung Nepenthes L.". Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 23: 423-429. ISSN 00006-8179
  • Clarke et al. (2000). Nepenthes macrophylla. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Listed as Critically Endangered (CR B1+2c, C2b v2.3)
  • Clarke, C.M. 1997. Nepenthes of Borneo. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, pp. 99-101.
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