Nepenthes tentaculata
Nepenthes tentaculata
Nepenthes tentaculata is a Kannenpflanzenart from the family of pitcher plants plants ( Nepenthaceae ). The plant was described in 1873 by Joseph Dalton Hooker and is closely related to Nepenthes murudensis.
Description
Nepenthes tentaculata is a plant that along usually grows on the ground and thick at regular intervals of ten centimeters from the nodes of up to five millimeters and up to three, rarely up to four meters long shoot axis up to ten centimeters is high rosettes, so that smaller clumps may arise. But as soon as she comes in contact with an object to which it can promote itself entwine, it begins to climb.
The apparent leaf blades that are simply a re-formed leaf base in the strict sense, are coriaceous, lanceolate to elliptic and up to six inches long. The tendrils appendages reach this length. At its end they go in up to thirty inches high and up to eight inches wide cans on whose lower third is egg-shaped and continues cylindrical towards the peristome, the two vertically running around the whole pot wings are fringed. The typical dimorphism of the cans shows up in more cylindrical shape and transforming the wings into pure ribs in the air cans.
The racemose inflorescences consist of one to fifteen centimeters long flower stems and up to ten centimeters long Schei Nourish. The individual flowers are up to ten millimeters long flower stems to reverse- lance-shaped petals are elongated up to 3 millimeters long. Like all pitcher plants Nepenthes tentaculata is also dioecious, the female inflorescences are smaller than the males in general.
Distribution and habitat
Nepenthes tentaculata is native to Borneo and Sulawesi, where they. Mossy forests in both heavily shaded and humid as well as arid, open locations at altitudes between (700) 1000 and 2100 (2550) m above sea NN. occurs preferentially in sphagnum peat or, occasionally also in sand or rock ultrabasischem. They often occurs with other pitcher plants species on socialized.
System
For a long time two varieties were not distinguished, Nepenthes tentaculata ( Hook.f. ) var imberbis ( Becc. ) and Nepenthes tentaculata ( Hook.f. ) var tomentosa ( Macfarl. ). These have now been put back as synonyms for Nepenthes tentaculata.
Some site forms from Sulawesi and from Kinabalu show distinct morphological differences. Whether these species rank are entitled, was discussed, but is not secured.
Swell
- C. M. Clarke: Nepenthes of Borneo. Natural History Publications, Kota Kinabalu, pp. 129-131, 1997
- Cheek, M. & Jebb, M.: Nepenthaceae, in: Flora Malesiana 15: 1-164, 2001, ISBN 90-71236-49-8