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Nepenthes attenboroughii A.S.Rob., S.Mc Pherson & V.B.Heinrich

Attenborough's Pitcher Plant, Pituyut

No habitat climate Photographs not checked Carnivorous plant

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Summary

Nepenthes attenboroughii, or Attenborough's pitcher plant, is a montane species of carnivorous pitcher plant of the genus Nepenthes. It is named after the celebrated broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, who is a keen enthusiast of the genus. The species is characterised by its large and distinctive bell-shaped lower and upper pitchers and narrow, upright lid. The type specimen of N. attenboroughii was collected on the summit of Mount Victoria, an ultramafic mountain in central Palawan, the Philippines.

Text from Wikipedia, “Nepenthes attenboroughii”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Nepenthes

Nepenthes is a genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus includes about 170 species, and numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids. They are mostly liana-forming plants of the Old World tropics, ranging from South China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines; westward to Madagascar and the Seychelles (one); southward to Australia (four) and New Caledonia (one); and northward to India (one) and Sri Lanka (one). More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Nepenthes”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Nepenthaceae

Described by

A.S.Rob., S.Mc Pherson & V.B.Heinrich

Native to

Philippines

Wild records

7 in range· 1 open

Cultivation

Grouped as a carnivorous plant by the genus Nepenthes, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 7 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativePhilippines

Kew's description“subshrub” · “montane tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker9.242, 118.316 · in the densest population, 7 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 7 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 2 km away. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 7 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 7 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Nepenthes attenboroughii, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Nepenthes palawanensis: Another new species of giant pitcher plant from the Philippines

Stewart McPherson (2010) · Carnivorous Plant Newsletter

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