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Nepenthes malayensis
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Nepenthes malayensis (A.Amin, M.N.Faizal & Dome), or the striped Malayan montane pitcher plant, is a large species of carnivorous tropical pitcher plant native and endemic to eastern mountains of Peninsular Malaysia. The peristomes on both upper and lower pitchers are profusely adorned by reddish bands, or stripes, making the species rather attractive. It grows close to mountain summits around 800–1,000 m above sea level in partially shaded areas, though some individuals have been seen growing in open areas. The species was first observed in 2018 and initially thought to be conspecific with N. sanguinea. Nepenthes malayensis formal description was published in late 2020 in Kew Bulletin and it is one of the three Malayan species described in the same year (the other two was N. latiffiana and N. domei). Nepenthes malayensis is listed in the International Plant Names Index (PNI), and its taxonomic position gets briefly reviewed (and recognized as a distinct species) in Dionée 2021 – a Fre......read more on Wikipedia.
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