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Four New Species of Nepenthes L. (Nepenthaceae) from the Central Mountains of Mindanao, Philippines

Together with the islands of Sumatra (Indonesia) and Borneo (Indonesia, Malaysia), the Philippines are the main center of diversity for carnivorous pitcher plants of the genus, Nepenthes L. Nepenthes are the largest of all carnivorous plants, and the species with the biggest pitchers are capable of...

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Autores principales: Gronemeyer, Thomas, Coritico, Fulgent, Wistuba, Andreas, Marwinski, David, Gieray, Tobias, Micheler, Marius, Mey, François Sockhom, Amoroso, Victor
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Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4844298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27135505
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants3020284
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author Gronemeyer, Thomas
Coritico, Fulgent
Wistuba, Andreas
Marwinski, David
Gieray, Tobias
Micheler, Marius
Mey, François Sockhom
Amoroso, Victor
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Coritico, Fulgent
Wistuba, Andreas
Marwinski, David
Gieray, Tobias
Micheler, Marius
Mey, François Sockhom
Amoroso, Victor
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description Together with the islands of Sumatra (Indonesia) and Borneo (Indonesia, Malaysia), the Philippines are the main center of diversity for carnivorous pitcher plants of the genus, Nepenthes L. Nepenthes are the largest of all carnivorous plants, and the species with the biggest pitchers are capable of trapping and digesting small amphibians and even mammals. The central cordillera of Mindanao Island in the south of the Philippines is mostly covered with old, primary forest and is the largest remaining cohesive, untouched area of wilderness in the Philippines. In a recent field exploration of two areas of the central cordillera, namely Mount Sumagaya and a section of the Pantaron range, four new taxa of Nepenthes were discovered. These four remarkable new species, N. pantaronensis, N. cornuta, N. talaandig and N. amabilis, are described, illustrated and assessed.
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spelling pubmed-48442982016-04-29 Four New Species of Nepenthes L. (Nepenthaceae) from the Central Mountains of Mindanao, Philippines Gronemeyer, Thomas Coritico, Fulgent Wistuba, Andreas Marwinski, David Gieray, Tobias Micheler, Marius Mey, François Sockhom Amoroso, Victor Plants (Basel) Article Together with the islands of Sumatra (Indonesia) and Borneo (Indonesia, Malaysia), the Philippines are the main center of diversity for carnivorous pitcher plants of the genus, Nepenthes L. Nepenthes are the largest of all carnivorous plants, and the species with the biggest pitchers are capable of trapping and digesting small amphibians and even mammals. The central cordillera of Mindanao Island in the south of the Philippines is mostly covered with old, primary forest and is the largest remaining cohesive, untouched area of wilderness in the Philippines. In a recent field exploration of two areas of the central cordillera, namely Mount Sumagaya and a section of the Pantaron range, four new taxa of Nepenthes were discovered. These four remarkable new species, N. pantaronensis, N. cornuta, N. talaandig and N. amabilis, are described, illustrated and assessed. MDPI 2014-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4844298/ /pubmed/27135505 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants3020284 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Gronemeyer, Thomas
Coritico, Fulgent
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Marwinski, David
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Micheler, Marius
Mey, François Sockhom
Amoroso, Victor
Four New Species of Nepenthes L. (Nepenthaceae) from the Central Mountains of Mindanao, Philippines
title Four New Species of Nepenthes L. (Nepenthaceae) from the Central Mountains of Mindanao, Philippines
title_full Four New Species of Nepenthes L. (Nepenthaceae) from the Central Mountains of Mindanao, Philippines
title_fullStr Four New Species of Nepenthes L. (Nepenthaceae) from the Central Mountains of Mindanao, Philippines
title_full_unstemmed Four New Species of Nepenthes L. (Nepenthaceae) from the Central Mountains of Mindanao, Philippines
title_short Four New Species of Nepenthes L. (Nepenthaceae) from the Central Mountains of Mindanao, Philippines
title_sort four new species of nepenthes l. (nepenthaceae) from the central mountains of mindanao, philippines
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4844298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27135505
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants3020284
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