''Nepenthes lavicola'' (; from
Latin
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: ''lavicola'' growing upon lava) 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 ...
species
endemic
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to the
Geureudong Massif of
Aceh
Aceh ( ), officially the Aceh Province ( ace, Nanggroë Acèh; id, Provinsi Aceh) is the westernmost province of Indonesia. It is located on the northernmost of Sumatra island, with Banda Aceh being its capital and largest city. Granted a s ...
, northern
Sumatra
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, where it grows at 2000–2600 m
above sea level. It is thought to be most closely related to ''
N. singalana'' and ''
N. spectabilis''.
''Nepenthes lavicola'' is notable for its very prominent
bract
In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...
s, which often overarch the flowers and may be up to 7 cm long at the base of female
inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...
s.
This species is also unusual in that it bears up to two bracts per pedicel or partial peduncle.
Swiss
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botanist
Albert Friedrich Frey-Wyssling
:''See also Albert Frey (disambiguation)''
Dr Albert Friedrich Frey-Wyssling (November 8, 1900 – August 30, 1988) was a Swiss botanist who pioneered submicroscopic morphology and helped initiate the study of molecular biology.
Life
Fr ...
mentioned ''N. lavicola'' in a 1931 article as an unidentified ''Nepenthes'' species.
[Frey-Wyssling, A. 1931. Over de vegetatie van den Boer ni Telong en omstreken in de Gajolanden (Noord Sumatra). ''De Tropische Natuur'' 20: 37–49.]
''Nepenthes lavicola'' has no known
natural hybrid
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s.
[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 ...
''. 2 volumes. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole. No forms or varieties have been described.
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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Koudela, I. 1998
Klíčí nebo neklíčí ''
Trifid'' 1998(2): 36–37.
p. 2
* 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. PhD 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.
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Carnivorous plants of Asia
lavicola
Endemic flora of Sumatra
Critically endangered flora of Asia
Plants described in 1996