Jumaat Haji Adam (born 1956) is a

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

and taxonomist specialising in the

carnivorous A carnivore , or meat-eater (Latin, ''caro'', genitive ''carnis'', meaning meat or "flesh" and ''vorare'' meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements derive from animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other sof ...

pitcher plant genus ''

Nepenthes ''Nepenthes'' () is a genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus includes about 170 species, and numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids. They are mos ...

''. Adam has described numerous ''Nepenthes'' taxa, mostly with

C. C. Wilcock Christopher C. Wilcock (born 1946) is a taxonomist specialising in the carnivorous pitcher plant genus ''Nepenthes''. Together with J. H. Adam, Wilcock has described several ''Nepenthes'' taxa, including the species '' N. faizaliana'' and '' N. ma ...

, including the species '' N. faizaliana'' and '' N. mapuluensis'', as well as the natural hybrids '' N. × alisaputrana'', '' N. × sarawakiensis'',Adam, J.H. & C.C. Wilcock 1993. One new natural hybrid of ''Nepenthes'' from Mt. Mulu. ''The Sarawak Museum Journal'' 43: 291–294. and '' N. × sharifah-hapsahii''.

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