Nepenthes benstonei

Nepenthes benstonei
Upper pitchers of Nepenthes benstonei from Bukit Bakar
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Nepenthaceae
Genus:	Nepenthes
Species:	N. benstonei
Binomial name
Nepenthes benstonei C.Clarke (1999)
Synonyms
Synonyms Nepenthes alata auct. non Blanco: Danser (1928) [=N. abalata/N. alata/N. benstonei/ N. copelandii/N. eustachya/N. graciliflora/ N. mindanaoensis/N. mirabilis/ N. negros/N. philippinensis] Nepenthes gracillima auct. non Ridl.: Kiew (1990); Jebb & Cheek (1997); Cheek & Jebb (2001) [=N. alba/N. benstonei/N. gracillima] Nepenthes sanguinea auct. non Lindl.: Jebb & Cheek (1997) [=N. benstonei/N. sanguinea] Heterochresonyms Nepenthes benstonei auct. non C.Clarke: Cheek & Jebb (2001) [=N. benstonei/N. thai]

Nepenthes benstonei /nᵻˈpɛnθiːz bɛnˈstoʊni.aɪ/ is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Peninsular Malaysia, where it grows at elevations of 150–1350 m above sea level. The specific epithet benstonei honours botanist Benjamin Clemens Stone, who was one of the first to collect the species.

In their 1997 monograph, "A skeletal revision of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae)", Matthew Jebb and Martin Cheek tentatively referred specimens collected from Bukit Bakar, near Macang, Kelantan, to N. sanguinea. These were Stone & Chin 15238, deposited at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia near Kuala Lumpur (KLU), and Shah & Shukor 3168, also held at KLU as well as the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia in Kepong (KEP). They noted that the plants exhibited some unusual morphological features, such as larger leaves and , almost leaf bases, suggesting that they might represent an as-yet undescribed taxon.

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