Nepenthes mirabilis
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> Date: Feb 15, 3:12 pm Subject: The Pitcher Plant: Nepenthes mirabilis (Lour.) Druce To: efloraindia Thanks a lot sir. There is no need to add SHRI with my name :). I would be fine without it. Regards Pankaj On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Mahadeswara <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sri Pankaj ji, > Thanks for the beautiful photographs and the complete information on > the species. > On Feb 15, 12:21 am, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: >>Nepenthesmirabilis (Lour.) Druce Rep. Bot. Exch. Cl. Brit. Isles >> 1916, 637 (1917). >> Basionym: Phyllamphora mirabilis Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 2: 606. (1790) >> Family: Nepenthaceae >> Location: TBGRI, Palode, Trivandrum. >> Camera: Nikon D300+60mm Nikkor +Vivitar ringlflash. >> ................................ >> Other information [source: Wikipedia] >>Nepenthesmirabilis (pronounced /nɨˈpɛnθiːz mɪˈræbɨlɪs/, from Latin: >> mirabilis = wonderful), or the Common Swamp Pitcher-Plant, is a >> tropical carnivorous plant species of the pitfall trap variety. It has >> by far the widest distribution of anyNepenthesspecies and is known >> from the following countries and regions: Borneo, Sumatra, Thailand, >> Peninsular Malaysia, Sulawesi, Maluku Islands, Myanmar, Cambodia, New >> Guinea, Australia, Philippines, Indochina, China, Hong Kong, >> Micronesia, Macau, and Palau. It also exhibits great variabiliy with >> the most forms and varieties of any species in the genus, the most >> notable of which is N. mirabilis var. echinostoma, a rare variety >> endemic to Brunei and Sarawak that possesses an extremely wide >> peristome. >> The conservation status of N. mirabilis is listed as Least Concern on >> the 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. In Hong Kong, it is a >> protected species under Forestry Regulations Cap. 96A. >> According to Matthew Jebb and Martin Cheek, the pitchers of N. >> mirabilis are used as toy phallocrypts in New Guinea. >> ................. >> Regards >> Pankaj >> -- >> *********************************************** >> "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" >> Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) >> Research Associate >> Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project >> Department of Habitat Ecology >> Wildlife Institute of India >> Post Box # 18 >> Dehradun - 248001, India >> Slide7.JPG >> 563KViewDownload >> Slide8.JPG >> 549KViewDownload >> Slide9.JPG >> 968KViewDownload >> PROTOLOGUENEPENTHESMIRABILIS 606.jpg >> 950KViewDownload >> PROTOLOGUENEPENTHESMIRABILIS 607.jpg >> 1003KViewDownload -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
