Nepenthes mapuluensis
| Nepenthes mapuluensis | |
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| Lower pitcher of N. mapuluensis. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Nepenthaceae |
| Genus: | Nepenthes |
| Species: | N. mapuluensis |
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Nepenthes mapuluensis J.H.Adam & Wilcock (1990) |
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| Distribution of N. mapuluensis. | |
Nepenthes mapuluensis (/nᵻˈpɛnθiːz məˌpuːluˈɛnsɪs/; from Mount Ilas Mapulu), the Mapulu Pitcher-Plant, is a species of tropical pitcher plant native to East Kalimantan, Borneo. It is known only from a restricted geographical range and is listed as Near Threatened on the 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Nepenthes mapuluensis has no known natural hybrids. No infraspecific taxa have been described.
Nepenthes mapuluensis was first collected in 1957 on Mount Ilas Mapulu by A.J.G. 'Doc' Kostermans, the head of the Botanical Division of the Forestry Research Institute at Bogor, on the same expedition in which he collected the type material of N. campanulata. The species was described in 1990 by J. H. Adam and C. C. Wilcock based on a single duplicate collection in the Leiden and Bogor herbaria, designated as Kostermans 14017.
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