Nepenthes spectabilis
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| An upper pitcher of N. spectabilis | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Nepenthaceae |
| Genus: | Nepenthes |
| Species: | N. spectabilis |
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Nepenthes spectabilis Danser (1928) |
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Nepenthes spectabilis /nᵻˈpɛnθiːz spɛkˈtæbᵻlɪs/ is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Sumatra, where it grows at elevations of between 1400 and 2200 m above sea level. The specific epithet spectabilis is Latin for "visible" or "notable".
The first known collection of N. spectabilis was made by Julius August Lörzing in 1920. The specimen Lörzing 7308 was collected on June 5, 1920, on Mount Sibajak at an altitude of 1800 to 1900 m. It is deposited at the Bogor Botanical Gardens (formerly the Herbarium of the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens) along with two isotypes which include both male and female floral material. A third isotype, sheet H.L.B. 928.350-170, is held at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands in Leiden and includes female floral material.
Lörzing made two further collections of N. spectabilis in 1921. A fourth specimen was collected by Mohamed Nur bin Mohamed Ghose later that same year.
B. H. Danser formally describedN. spectabilis in his seminal monograph "The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies", published in 1928. He designated Lörzing 7308 as the type specimen. Danser wrote:
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