Nepenthes sumatrana
| Nepenthes sumatrana | |
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| Upper pitcher of Nepenthes sumatrana. | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Nepenthaceae |
| Genus: | Nepenthes |
| Species: | N. sumatrana |
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Nepenthes sumatrana (Miq.) Beck (1895) |
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Nepenthes sumatrana /nᵻˈpɛnθiːz sʊmɑːˈtreɪnə/ is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, after which it is named.
Nepenthes sumatrana was first collected by Johannes Elias Teijsmann in February 1856, near the port town of Sibolga. Teijsmann wrote the following account of his discovery:
Among the plants collected to-day and the day before yesterday [February 3rd and 1st], there were 4 species of Nepenthes (katoepat baroek, tjalong baroek, or taau-taau), growing here on the very coast between the scrub in a thin layer of humus, under which pure sea sand, or against steep rocks and the coast, when there was only some earth or moss for the germination. Some species are very common and luxuriant here and abound in flowers and fruits. The plants are all transported to Buitenzorg in living state, but from the seeds only those of one species I have succeeded in bringing to germinate, this growing very slowly but being very interesting, as the young plants, only few lines large, already bear minute pitchers.
The plant material was initially described as a variety of N. boschiana by Friedrich Miquel in 1858, and in 1886 Odoardo Beccari considered it a variety of N. maxima. Both of these species are now known to be absent from Sumatra.Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, in his 1895 work "Die Gattung Nepenthes", was the first to publish N. sumatrana under its present binomial combination, although he introduced it under the entry for N. maxima with the words "Hierzu gehört als Varietät: N. sumatrana" (this includes a variety: N. sumatrana).
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