Nepenthes mirabilis

Nepenthes mirabilis

Nepenthes mirabilis is a Kannenpflanzenart from the family of pitcher plants plants ( Nepenthaceae ). It is the most widespread of all plant species Can.

Description

Habit

Nepenthes mirabilis is a perennial subshrub. She climbs up to ten meters high in dense vegetation, in an open area it remains a short shrub with a height of up to two meters. The trunk has a diameter of up to ten millimeters. Young plants are covered with short white hairs, but mature plants are hairless. In old plants the leaves are occasionally in a rosette at the base.

The leaves on basal rosettes are sessile, coriaceous, lanceolate and up to ten inches long. From the formulation of the midrib of spring on each side of four to five parallel side ribs.

The higher stationary blades are formed at intervals of two to four inches along the stem axis. They are stalked, the petiole has a length of 15-25 centimeters, the (apparent, but in fact a re-formed leaf base representative ) leaf blades themselves are between twenty and forty inches long, three to eight inches wide, less leathery than the leaves of the rosette and vice versa - ovate to broadly lanceolate - linear. From the formulation of the midrib of spring on each side five to eight parallel side ribs.

At the end of the " Blade " goes the midrib into a tendril, which can be as long as the " Blade " even his and if it is can -supporting, is mostly once screwed before it flows into the bottom of the pot.

Cans

The cans of the two leaf shapes vary slightly, which the indigenous rosettes are up to five inches tall, the bottom half is inclined ovate, the upper thin tubular.

Distribution, habitat

Nepenthes mirabilis is found from southern China via Hong Kong, the Malay Peninsula, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Borneo, Sumatra, the Philippines, Micronesia, New Guinea and Australia. They mostly inhabited open, marshy habitats with sandy soils, but occasionally also in denser vegetation.

System

The species has been described many times interchangeably because of their wide distribution and their pronounced variability. Their variability has also led to the description of numerous Untertaxa, including the rare, endemic Nepenthes mirabilis var Echinostoma in Brunei.

Nepenthes mirabilis is closely related to Nepenthes rowanae, the only pitcher plant, which is endemic to Australia.

Swell

• Cheek, M. & Jebb, M.: Nepenthaceae, in: Flora Malesiana 15: 1-164, 2001, ISBN 90-71236-49-8
• Clarke, C.: Nepenthes of Borneo, 1997, Natural History Publications ( Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, ISBN 983-812-015-4
• Danser, BH 1928, The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies, in: Bulletin de Jardin de Botanique, Buitenzorg, Series III, 9 (3-4) :249 - 438. ( N. mirabilis - text online)
• Lowrie, Allen: Carnivorous Plants of Australia, Vol 3, English, Nedlands, Western Australia, 1998
• Flora of China, Vol 8, Page 198 ( full text online )