''Nepenthes chaniana'' (; after Datuk

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, Managing Director of Natural History Publications) is a tropical

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species belonging to the

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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 ...

''. It is characterised by a dense

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of long, white hairs. Pitchers are cylindrical and mostly white to yellow in colouration. ''Nepenthes chaniana'' belongs to the loosely defined "''N. maxima'' complex", which also includes, among other species, '' N. boschiana'', '' N. epiphytica'', '' N. eymae'', '' N. faizaliana'', '' N. fusca'', '' N. klossii'', '' N. maxima'', '' N. platychila'', '' N. stenophylla'', and '' N. vogelii''.Robinson, A.S., J. Nerz & A. Wistuba 2011. ''Nepenthes epiphytica'', a new pitcher plant from East Kalimantan. In: McPherson, S.R. '' New Nepenthes: Volume One''. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole. pp. 36–51. Cultivated plants of this species were for a long time misidentified as '' N. pilosa''. While ''N. pilosa'' is

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, ''N. chaniana'' is native to

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and

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Bukit Batu Lawi Batu Lawi is a twin-peaked mountain in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo) that has played important roles in both ancient mythology and modern history. The taller 'male' peak is 2046 metres above sea level, while the female summi ...

and other mountains). The pitchers of ''N. pilosa'' are rounder and broader in shape than those of ''N. chaniana''. The

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of ''N. chaniana'' was collected by

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, the highest peak in

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Natural hybrids

*? '' N. albomarginata'' × ''N. chaniana''McPherson, S.R. 2009. ''

Pitcher Plants of the Old World ''Pitcher Plants of the Old World'' is a two-volume monograph by Stewart McPherson on the pitcher plants of the genera ''Nepenthes'' and ''Cephalotus''. It was published in May 2009 by Redfern Natural History Productions and covers all species kno ...

''. 2 volumes. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole. * ''N. chaniana'' × '' N. veitchii''Clarke, C.M. 1997. ''

Nepenthes of Borneo ''Nepenthes of Borneo'' is a monograph by Charles Clarke (botanist), Charles Clarke on the Nepenthes, tropical pitcher plants of Borneo.Clarke, C.M. 1997. ''Nepenthes of Borneo''. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu. It was first p ...

''. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu.Phillipps, A., A. Lamb & C.C. Lee 2008. ''

Pitcher Plants of Borneo ''Pitcher-Plants of Borneo'' is a monograph by Anthea Phillipps and Anthony Lamb on the tropical pitcher plants of Borneo. It was first published in 1996 by Natural History Publications (Borneo), in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ke ...

''. Second Edition. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu. Plants identified by

Macák, M. 2000
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as a hybrid between ''N. chaniana'' (known as '' N. pilosa'' at the time) and '' N. lowii'' are now thought to represent '' N. fusca'' × ''N. lowii''.

References

* Adam, J.H., C.C. Wilcock & M.D. Swaine 1992
The ecology and distribution of Bornean ''Nepenthes''.
''Journal of Tropical Forest Science'' 5(1): 13–25. * Bourke, G. 2010
The climbing pitcher plants of the Kelabit highlands.
''Captive Exotics Newsletter'' 1(1): 4–7. * Fretwell, S. 2013. Back in Borneo to see giant ''Nepenthes''. Part 3: Mt. Trusmadi and Mt. Alab. ''

Victorian Carnivorous Plant Society Inc. ''Victorian Carnivorous Plant Society Inc.'', formerly titled simply ''Victorian Carnivorous Plant Society'' and also known as the ''VCPS Journal'', is a quarterly periodical A periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or simp ...

'' 109: 6–15. * Kurup, R., A.J. Johnson, S. Sankar, A.A. Hussain, C.S. Kumar & S. Baby 2013. Fluorescent prey traps in carnivorous plants. ''Plant Biology'' 15(3): 611–615. * Lee, C.C. 2000
Recent ''Nepenthes'' Discoveries

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The 3rd Conference of the International Carnivorous Plant Society, San Francisco, USA. * McPherson, S.R. & A. Robinson 2012. ''

Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Borneo This list of ''Nepenthes'' literature is a listing of major published works dealing with the tropical pitcher plants of the genus '' Nepenthes''. It includes specialised standalone publications and taxonomic monographs released as part of larg ...

''. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole. * Thorogood, C. 2010. '' The Malaysian Nepenthes: Evolutionary and Taxonomic Perspectives''. Nova Science Publishers, New York.
New pitcher plant species that went unnoticed.
''Daily Express'' October 28, 2006. * Meimberg, H., A. Wistuba, P. Dittrich & G. Heubl 2001. Molecular phylogeny of Nepenthaceae based on cladistic analysis of plastid trnK intron sequence data. ''Plant Biology'' 3(2): 164–175. * Meimberg, H. 2002.�
Molekular-systematische Untersuchungen an den Familien Nepenthaceae und Ancistrocladaceae sowie verwandter Taxa aus der Unterklasse Caryophyllidae s. l..
Ph.D. thesis, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich. * Meimberg, H. & G. Heubl 2006. Introduction of a nuclear marker for phylogenetic analysis of Nepenthaceae. ''Plant Biology'' 8(6): 831–840. * Meimberg, H., S. Thalhammer, A. Brachmann & G. Heubl 2006. Comparative analysis of a translocated copy of the ''trnK'' intron in carnivorous family Nepenthaceae. ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' 39(2): 478–490. * Mey, F.S. 2014

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Natural hybrids

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