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Nepenthes pitopangii Chi C.Lee, S.Mc Pherson, Bourke & M.Mansur

Nepenthaceae

No habitat climate Photographs not checked Carnivorous plant

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Summary

Nepenthes pitopangii is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Discovered in 2006, N. pitopangii was initially known from a single plant at a remote locality in Lore Lindu National Park. Efforts made in the following years to locate further populations on surrounding mountains proved unsuccessful. In March 2011, a new population of N. pitopangii consisting of around a dozen plants was discovered more than 100 km from the type locality. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Nepenthes pitopangii”, 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
Chi C.Lee, S.Mc Pherson, Bourke & M.Mansur
Native to
Sulawesi
Wild records
12 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: 12 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.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeSulawesi
Kew's description“climbing shrub” · “wet tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-1.35, 120.25 · in the densest population, 12 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 12 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. 12 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 12 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Papers naming this species

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

Nepenthes pitopangii (Nepenthaceae), a New Species from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
C C Lee, S. R. Mcpherson, Muhammad Syafi’i Mansur, Bourke, Greg (2009) · Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution)
AUTEKOLOGI NEPENTHES PITOPANGII LEE.DI KAWASAN TAMAN NASIONAL LORE LINDU SULAWESI TENGAH
Muhammad Fajrri Ramadhan M. Saleh, Miswan Miswan, Ramdanil Pitopang (2013) · Natural Science Journal of Science and Technology
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2021) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Has Nepenthes pitopangii Chi C. Lee, S. Mc Pherson, Bourke & M. Mansur a rare and endemic flowering plant of Sulawesi, been extinct in its original nature?
Ramadhanil Pitopang, Irmasari Thaha, Andi L. Amar, Chien C. Lee (2018) · Natural Science Journal of Science and Technology
Nepenthes pitopangii: Lee, C. & Clarke, C.M.
IUCN (2013) · IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Other Nepenthes 174 in the reference

History & registers

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