Nepenthes x cincta

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Nepenthes × cincta
Upper pitcher of mature plant
Upper pitcher of mature plant
Conservation status
Data deficient
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nepenthaceae
Genus: Nepenthes
Species: N. × cincta
Binomial name
Nepenthes × cincta
Mast., 1884

Nepenthes × cincta (Latin: cinctus = girdled) is a natural hybrid between N. albomarginata and N. northiana.

N. × cincta is a rare plant and, due to the localised distribution of N. northiana, only grows at a few sites in Bau, Sarawak, usually on a substrate of limestone. N. × cincta is one of only two natural hybrids involving N. northiana, the other being N. × bauensis.

The traits of N. albomarginata are very dominant in this hybrid; the wide flared peristome of its larger parent species (N. northiana) is almost completely lost. Pitchers are narrowly infundibulate (funnel-shaped) throughout and range in colouration from cream to dusky purple with red or black spots.

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  • Clarke, C.M. & C.C. Lee 2004. Pitcher Plants of Sarawak. Natural History Publications, Kota Kinabalu, p. 32.