Nepenthes tobaica
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| A lower pitcher of Nepenthes tobaica | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Nepenthaceae |
| Genus: | Nepenthes |
| Species: | N. tobaica |
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Nepenthes tobaica Danser (1928) |
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Nepenthes tobaica /nᵻˈpɛnθiːz toʊˈbaɪkə/ is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Sumatra. It is particularly abundant around Lake Toba, after which it is named.
Nepenthes tobaica is closely related to N. angasanensis, N. gracilis, N. mikei, and N. reinwardtiana.
The earliest known collection of N. tobaica was made by Johannes Elias Teijsmann on February 8, 1856, probably from the Batak regions. This specimen, which includes female floral material, is H. L. B. 908,155-1106.
Matthew Jebb and Martin Cheek designated this specimen as the lectotype of N. tobaica in their 1997 monograph.
Nepenthes tobaica was formally described in 1928 by Dutch botanist B. H. Danser in his seminal monograph "The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies". At the time, the species was already known from numerous herbarium specimens. Danser suggested a possibly conspecific species in N. reinwardtiana:
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