Nepenthes × trichocarpa

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Nepenthes × trichocarpa
Upper pitcher of N. × trichocarpa from Sumatra.
Upper pitcher of N. × trichocarpa from Sumatra.
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nepenthaceae
Genus: Nepenthes
Species: N. × trichocarpa
Binomial name
Nepenthes × trichocarpa
Miq. (1858)
Synonyms
  • Nepenthes trichocarpa
    auct. non Miq.: Hort. ex Hort.Bednar in sched. (1993) [=N. distillatoria]
  • Nepenthes trichocarpa var. erythrosticta
    Miq. (1861)

Nepenthes × trichocarpa (pronounced /nəˈpɛnθiːz ˌtraɪkəʊˈkɑrpə/, from Greek: trikho- = hair; thread; filament, -carpus = fruit), or the Dainty Pitcher-Plant,[1] is a common natural hybrid involving N. ampullaria and N. gracilis. It was originally thought to be a distinct species and was described as such.

Nepenthes × trichocarpa from Borneo.
Nepenthes × trichocarpa from Borneo.

B. H. Danser included this plant in his 1928 monograph on the genus Nepenthes. He described the plant as a climbing stem cylindrical in cross-section, and pitchers of the rosettes shortly incurved from the tendril and ovate in form. Both lower and upper pitchers can be up to 8 cm tall, widest at 1/3 of the height, up to 4 cm wide, with two fringed wings over the whole length.

The colour of the pitchers ranges from green to spotted or striped with red or yellow, forming wonderful carpets on the forest floor and dainty upper pitchers scrambling up supporting shrubs and trees.

N. × trichocarpa is found in lowland conditions throughout Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Singapore and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, usually in the company of its parent species N. ampullaria and N. gracilis.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Phillipps, A. & A. Lamb 1996. Pitcher-Plants of Borneo. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu.
  • Clarke, C.M. (1997). Nepenthes of Borneo. Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, p. 150. ISBN 983-812-015-4. 
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