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Nepenthes mollis Danser

velvet pitcher plant

No habitat climate Photographs not checked Carnivorous plant
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Summary

Nepenthes mollis, or the velvet pitcher-plant, is a tropical pitcher plant species natives to Kalimantan, Borneo. It used to be known only from a single dried herbarium specimen and is the sole recognised species in the genus Nepenthes of which the pitchers are unknown. In 2019 Global Wildlife Conservation announced the rediscovery of the species.

Text from Wikipedia, “Nepenthes mollis”, 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
Danser
Native to
Borneo
Wild records
16 in range· 0 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: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeBorneo
Kew's description“climbing shrub” · “wet tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker3.95, 115.55 · in the densest population, 15 records (94% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 16 georeferenced records inside the native range; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. 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 centre of the tenth-degree cell nearest the middle (no openly licensed record lies in the population, so no record's coordinates are published) of the densest 1° population of the 16 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Papers naming this species

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

Out of the trap: A new phytothelm‐breeding species ofPhilautusand an updated phylogeny of Bornean bush frogs (Anura: Rhacophoridae)
Laurence Etter, Alexander Haas, Chien C. Lee, Pui Yong Min (2021) · Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research
Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Nepenthes mollis: Clarke, C., Cantley, R., Nerz, J., Rischer, H. & Witsuba, A.
IUCN (2000) · IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Nepenthes mollis (Nepenthaceae) -- rediscovered?
Bruce Salmon (1999) · Carnivorous Plant Newsletter

Other Nepenthes 174 in the reference

Nepenthes abalata Nepenthaceae
Nepenthes abgracilis Nepenthaceae
Nepenthes adnata Nepenthaceae
Nepenthes aenigma Nepenthaceae Nepenthes alata Nepenthaceae Nepenthes albomarginata Nepenthaceae
Nepenthes alfredoi Nepenthaceae
Nepenthes alzapan Nepenthaceae Nepenthes ampullaria flask-shaped pitcher plant
Nepenthes andamana Nepenthaceae
Nepenthes angasanensis Nepenthaceae
Nepenthes appendiculata Nepenthaceae all 175 ›

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.