''Nepenthes vieillardii'' (; after Eugène Vieillard, collector of plants from
New Caledonia
)
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and
Tahiti
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between 1861 and 1867) is a species of
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
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to the island of New Caledonia. Its distribution is the most easterly of any ''
Nepenthes'' species. Its natural
habitat
In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species habitat can be seen as the physical ...
is shrublands or forests, to about altitude.
''
Tripteroides caledonicus''
mosquito
Mosquitoes (or mosquitos) are members of a group of almost 3,600 species of small flies within the family Culicidae (from the Latin ''culex'' meaning " gnat"). The word "mosquito" (formed by ''mosca'' and diminutive ''-ito'') is Spanish for "li ...
es breed in the pitchers of this species.
[Iyengar, M.O.T. 1969. ''Australian Journal of Entomology'' 8(2): 214–216. ]
Infraspecific taxa
*''Nepenthes vieillardii'' var. ''deplanchei'' Dub. (1906)
*''Nepenthes vieillardii'' var. ''humilis'' (Moore) Guilliaum. (1964)
*''Nepenthes vieillardii'' var. ''minima'' Guillaum. (1953)
*''Nepenthes vieillardii'' var. ''montrouzieri'' (Dub.)
Macfarl. (1908)
[Macfarlane, J.M. 1908. Nepenthaceae. In: A. Engler. ''Das Pflanzenreich IV'', III, Heft 36: 1–91.]
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. 2006. Introduction. In: Danser, B.H. ''
The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies
"The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies" is a seminal monograph by B. H. Danser on the tropical pitcher plants of the Dutch East Indies and surrounding regions. It was originally published in the ''Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg ...
''. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu. pp. 1–15.
* Gibson, R. 2010
''Nepenthes vieillardii'' in the wild.''
Carniflora News
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'' 1(3): 15–16.
* Guillou-Gotkovsky, E. 1987
Observations au sujet de ''Nepenthes vieillardii'' ''
Dionée'' 12.
* Jebb, M.H.P. & M.R. Cheek 1997.
A skeletal revision of ''Nepenthes'' (Nepenthaceae). ''Blumea'' 42(1): 1–106.
* Jones, P. & M. Wilson 1987. ''
Carnivorous Plant Newsletter
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History and editorship
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'' 16(3): 74–82.
* Kitching, R.L. &
C.J. Schofield 1986
Every pitcher tells a story ''New Scientist'' 109(1492): 48–50.
* Kurata, K., T. Jaffré & H. Setoguchi 2003. Intraspecific differentiation of ''Nepenthes vieillardii'' Hook. f. in New Caledonia. The relationship between floral morphology and soil chemistry. ''Journal of Plant Research'' 116(supplement): 47.
* Kurata, K., T. Jaffré & H. Setoguchi 2004. Variation of pitcher morphology within ''Nepenthes vieillardii'' Hook. f. (Nepenthaceae) in New Caledonia. ''Acta phytotaxonomica et geobotanica'' 55(3): 181–197
Abstract* Kurata, K. 2006. Intraspecific differentiation of ''Nepenthes vieillardii'' Hook.f. (Nepenthaceae) in New Caledonia. Ph.D. thesis, Kyoto University, Kyoto.
* Kurata, K., T. Jaffré & H. Setoguchi 2008. Genetic diversity and geographical structure of the pitcher plant ''Nepenthes vieillardii'' in New Caledonia: a chloroplast DNA haplotype analysis. ''American Journal of Botany'' 95(12): 1632–1644.
* Kurata, S. 2002. ニューカレドニアの食虫植物(序). ''
Journal of Insectivorous Plant Society
is a quarterly Japanese-language periodical and the official publication of the Insectivorous Plant Society of Japan.Rice, B. 2010Carnivorous Plant Society Archives The Carnivorous Plant FAQ. rchived page from October 10, 2010/ref> The journal ...
'' 53(1).
* Lecoufle, M. 1990. ''Nepenthes vieillardii''. In: ''Carnivorous Plants: Care and Cultivation''. Blandford, London. pp. 126–127.
* Mansur, M. 2001. 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. 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. 2013
''Nepenthes vieillardii'': a lazy sunbather...''Strange Fruits: A Garden's Chronicle'', July 28, 2013.
* Renner, T. & C.D. Specht 2011. A sticky situation: assessing adaptations for plant carnivory in the Caryophyllales by means of stochastic character mapping. ''International Journal of Plant Sciences'' 172(7): 889–901.
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vieillardii
Carnivorous plants of the Pacific
Endemic flora of New Caledonia
Plants described in 1873