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''diatas'' "above, on top") is a tropical
pitcher plant
Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps of what are considered to be "true" pitcher p ...
endemic
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Matthew Jebb
Matthew Hilary Peter Jebb (born 1958) is an Irish botanist and taxonomist specialising in the ant plant genera ''Squamellaria'', '' Myrmecodia'', '' Hydnophytum'', ''Myrmephytum'' and '' Anthorrhiza'', as well as the carnivorous plant genus '' ...
Blumea
''Blumea'' is a genus of flowering plants of the family Asteraceae.
Characteristics
Genus ''Blumea'' is found in the tropical and sub-tropical zones of Asia, especially the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. A few species are found in Aust ...
''. However, the name ''N. diatas'' had already been in use since at least 1994.Jebb, M. 1994 NEPENTHES revision for Flora Malesiana Carnivorous Plant Mailing List, 9 September 1994.
No forms or varieties of ''N. diatas'' have been described.
Taxonomy
In 2001,
Charles Clarke
Charles Rodway Clarke (born 21 September 1950) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich South from 1997 until 2010, and served as Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006.
Early life
T ...
performed a
cladistic analysis
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of the ''Nepenthes'' species of Sumatra and
Peninsular Malaysia
Peninsular Malaysia ( ms, Semenanjung Malaysia; Jawi: Ø³Ù…Ù†Ù†Ø¬Ú Ù…Ù„ÙŠØ³ÙŠØ§), or the States of Malaya ( ms, Negeri-negeri Tanah Melayu; Jawi: نڬري-نڬري تانه ملايو), also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, ...
using 70 morphological characteristics of each taxon. The following is part of the resultant
cladogram
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, showing "Clade 3", which comprises ''N. diatas'' and three other related species.Clarke, C.M. 2001. ''
Nepenthes of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia
''Nepenthes of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia'' is a monograph by Charles Clarke on the tropical pitcher plants of Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, and their minor surrounding islands. It was published in 2001 by Natural History Publications (Bor ...
''. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu.
Natural hybrids
The following natural hybrids involving ''N. diatas'' have been recorded.
*''N. diatas'' × '' N. mikei''
References
Further reading
* Bauer, U., C.J. Clemente, T. Renner & W. Federle 2012. Form follows function: morphological diversification and alternative trapping strategies in carnivorous ''Nepenthes'' pitcher plants. ''Journal of Evolutionary Biology'' 25(1): 90–102.
* Harwood, P. 1998. Four ''Nepenthes'' "new to science". ''
The Carnivorous Plant Society Journal
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Carnivorous Plant Newsletter
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'' 27(2): 59–61.
* Hernawati & P. Akhriadi 2006. ''
A Field Guide to the Nepenthes of Sumatra
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 large ...
''. PILI-NGO Movement, Bogor.
* Mansur, M. 2001 Koleksi ''Nepenthes'' di Herbarium Bogoriense: prospeknya sebagai tanaman hias. In: ''Prosiding Seminar Hari Cinta Puspa dan Satwa Nasional''. Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia, Bogor. pp. 244–253.
* 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.â 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.