Nepenthes abgracilis

Nepenthes abgracilis
Botanical illustration of N. abgracilis from Cheek and Jebb's type description
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Nepenthaceae
Genus:	Nepenthes
Species:	N. abgracilis
Binomial name
Nepenthes abgracilis Jebb & Cheek (2013)

Nepenthes abgracilis is a tropical pitcher plant native to the Philippines. It is known only from northeastern Mindanao, including Mount Legaspi. Little is known about the altitudinal distribution of this species, but the holotype was collected at 670 m.

This species belongs to the informal "N. micramphora group", which also includes N. cid from north-central Mindanao and N. micramphora from southeastern Mindanao.

The specific epithet means "from gracilis" and refers to Elmer Drew Merrill's early identification of a herbarium specimen of this species as N. gracilis.

Habitat photographs of a taxon matching the description of N. abgracilis appeared in a 2008 issue of the German-language periodical, Das Taublatt, and in the second volume of Stewart McPherson's 2009 work, Pitcher Plants of the Old World. In both it was identified as a variant of N. alata (at the time considered a highly variable and widespread species, but which has since been split into a number of daughter taxa).

Nepenthes abgracilis was formally described by botanists Martin Cheek and Matthew Jebb in the e-published 6 December 2013 issue of Phytotaxa. In the same paper Cheek and Jebb introduced the "N. micramphora group", to which N. abgracilis was assigned, and described a third member of this group, N. cid.Nepenthes abgracilis was one of 12 new Nepenthes species described by Cheek and Jebb in 2013.

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