Re: nepenthes of Borneo

Johannes Marabini (Johannes.Marabini@t-online.de)
Wed, 29 May 96 09:05 +0100

Phillipps and Lamb describe in their book "Pitcherplants of Borneo":"...
by the lack of 'eyes' so typical of reinwardtiana..." (Phillipps and
Lamb,pg.117 1996). I don't think that this is the only characteristic
for N.reinwardtiana. I
found 1981 several plants at Tambunan Road/Sabah, where I saw pitchers
with
'eyes' and without them at one plant! In Botanical Garden Munich I saw
a N.reinwardtiana without any 'eye'.

As de Witte described that there is also N.muluensis on G.Murud, it is
obvious that this "new" specie is a hybrid between N.muluensis (or
perhaps tentaculata) and N.reinwardtiana. And who says, that the
characteristic 'eye' is hereditary?

The photo of N. rafflesiana var. alata on page 127 is looking quite
similar to N.x Mizuho Kondo. The Japanees described it as a hybrid, but
the plants which you can find in german Botanical Gardens are looking
all like this N.rafflesiana.

There is also described N.macrophylla as a new specie with the ending
"ined". This is not correct. The name of the subspecie of
N.edwardsiana, N.edwardsiana ssp.macrophylla is still valid, as long as
they finished the revision of Nepenthes or described it new. And about
the reasons for the new specie should be dicussed.

Johannes