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Nepenthes mirabilis

Botanic Family

Nepenthaceae

Author

(Loureiro) Druce

Common Names

• Tropical Pitcher Plant
• Monkey Cup
• Zhu long cao (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• S & W Guangdong
• Hainan - China
• Borneo
• Cambodia
• Java
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Laos
• Kedah
• Malacca
• Penang
• Perak
• Seberang Perai
• Sarawak - Malaysia
• Myanmar?
• Palau
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Vietnam
• S. Asia Islands
• Papua New Guinea
• N. Australia
• Pacific Is.
• Thailand

Natural Habitats

• Dry scrub
• swamp margins
• forest
• grassland
• mountains
• disturbed areas
• coastal
• riverside
• swamp
• lowlands

Flowering Times

• Aug-Oct(Aust) Mar-Dec (China)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Dec (China)

Herbaceous erect or tendril climbing pitcher plant to 7.5m. Rosette leaves to 100mm long with fimbriate-denticulate margins & a tendril, other leaves coriaceous, glabrous or hairy to 450mm x 80mm with terminal tendril to 250mm long. Rosette pitchers to 50mm high with 2 fimbriate wings. Upper pitchers, hanging from tendril to 210mm high with 2 prominent ribs or wings. Male racemes to 500mm long with repals to 7mm long, female inflorescence shorter. Pale to reddish-green pitchers with red blotches, purple within. Brown fruit capsule to 30mm x 5mm

Further References

• E & M 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Jones & Gray 1977
• Huxley 1992
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• net
• F Indochine
• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• GBS
• Danser