Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 17:20:01 -0500 From: "Richard Brown" <esoft@ix.netcom.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg886$foo@default> Subject: Re: N. maxima/curtisii revisited
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> Thanks for all the comments on N. curtisii. I'll have to wait for new
> pitchers to determine whether my cutting is really N. maxima (syn.
> curtisii) or the mislabeled albomarginata hybrid that Walter Greenwood
> and Trent Meeks described.
Nick and everyone interested,
Trent here in south Florida. Actually, I have never been an advocate of N.
curtisii being a natural hybrid between N. maxima and N. albomarginata. I
was simply relaying information heard "through the grapevine". My plant does
display a slight band below the peristome, but then so does N. khasiana. The
pitchers, both lower and upper, are elongated, solid light green with a very
dark brownish red peristome, approaching black in color. It is not
especially flared like in other maxima clones. I have some nice slides of
it, and I guess I should send them to the ICPS for the database.
As for the "N. veitchii is really a maxima" comment: I think the taxonomists
have carefully worked this out and concluded that they are related but NOT
the same. I have mentioned this in the past, but Danser grouped Nepenthes
into a system of related species (sorry, I don't remember the exact
terminology), ie, the Vulgatae included alata, albomarginata, gracilis,
mirabilis, tobaica, etc, and the group that included maxima also included
veitchii, fusca, carunculata, truncata
Dr Schlauer was helpful in explaining that Danser's divisions were basically
correct, but that some things have changed in the "groups" since the 1920's.
Sorry I'm not more precise about this, but I'm at the office writing off the
top of my head. I have my Nepenthes books at home.
Hope this is somewhat informative.
Until later,
Trent Meeks
Pompano Beach, Florida.
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