There are others that you can see in the Kondo book, like N. clipeata, that
have the same sort of peltate leaf apex (as Kurata calls it in the book,
Nepenthes of Mt. Kinabalu). This is when the point the midrib turns into a
tendril occurs before the leaf apex. Here's a rough pic:
/-------------------\
/ \
--------------------------\ |
--------------------------\\ | leaf apex
^petiole \ ^midrib \\ /
\ ----------------\\/
\\
\\ (to pitcher)
I don't have a list of all the species of Nepenthes that have this same
kind of structure.
>Last night I read something that interested me. It is thought that the
>tendril and pitcher of Nepenthes are thought to be the actual leaf. What
>about the thing we normally call the ``leaf'' of a Nepenthes? It is
>thought to just be a leaf petiole with wide wings!
I read somewhere that the Nepenthes pitcher is a hollow midrib and the thing
that looks like an ordinary leaf is actually the petiole. I don't remember
what the actual leaf was claimed to be. I would guess a vestigial leaf is
the ribs on the pitcher. BTW, there is a common tree (perhaps
the Magnolia) that have no actual leaves, but the things that look like
leaves are actually expanded leaf bracts.
>Oh yeah, anybody ever have a D. capillaris reproduce like D. prolifera?
>One of my plants is putting out a rosette up on the flower stem.
I had a D. intermedia do that this past summer. It just produced a single
leaf that died in about a week. I guess it got too dry. I also had a
D. capensis produce a leaf that was forked. Another wierd thing that
happened last year was a plant I found growing in the soil of one of my
Nepenthes. Turned out to be a nice rabbit's foot fern. I have never had
one of these and don't know how it got there.
>Do any of these look particularly interesting? I mean,
>I've got two small pots of mystery pygmies from M.C., and
>they all look the same, except for one lone plant which has
>wide petioles, and small leaf blades. Will gemmae grow outside
>in cool weather and low light? My nitidula s.s. is producing
The plant with the wide petioles is most probably D. pulchella.
BTW, Glasshouse Works will be selling Nepenthes this year. Perhaps up to
45 different species and hybrids.