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Nepenthes ephippiata

Nepenthes ephippiata
Nepenthes ephippiata.jpg
Nepenthes ephippiata. Cultivated plant.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nepenthaceae
Genus: Nepenthes
Species: N. ephippiata
Binomial name
Nepenthes ephippiata
Danser (1928)
Nepenthes ephippiata distribution.png
Distribution of N. ephippiata.

Nepenthes ephippiata (/nˈpɛnθz ɛˌfɪpiˈɑːtə/; from Latin: ephippium "saddle cloth"), or the Saddle-Leaved Pitcher-Plant, is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Borneo. It occurs in the Hose Mountains of central Sarawak, as well as Mount Raya and Bukit Lesung in Kalimantan. Plants from the Hose Mountains appear to lack the leaf attachment found in specimens from Central Kalimantan.Nepenthes ephippiata is closely related to N. lowii.

B. H. Danser described the species in his 1928 monograph, "The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies", based only on part of a stem and an infructescence.

Nepenthes ephippiata has no known natural hybrids.

Nepenthes ephippiata type specimen (Amdjah 497)


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