Nepenthes murudensis
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Description
Terrestrial climber to 5 m tall.
Leaves thickly coriaceous, sessile;
Fruits with valves 14-22 by 3-4 mm.
Seeds filiform, 10 by 1 mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sarawak present), Gunung Murud present, Mt Murut present
Borneo: Sarawak, known only from Gunung Murud (also known as Mt Murut).
Notes
2. As first indicated by Phillipps & A.L. Lamb (see synonymy above), this species is somewhat intermediate between N. reinwardtiana and N. tentaculata. Indeed, N. murudensis may have originated as a hybrid between these two species. With the former it shares a pitcher with a ventricose base, a narrow waist and flared mouth, with the latter it shares a broad adnate leaf, and a fasciculated spur with tentacle-like appendages. The relatively large pitchers combined with the small oblong leaves which clasp the stem distinguishes the species from all others.
1 Nepenthes murudensis has been confused with the lower altitude N. rein-wardtiana which it resembles in the shape of the upper pitchers, but differs in lacking the inner pitcher ‘eye-spots’ and visibly perforate inner peristome margin. The stem, leaf shape and aspects of the pitcher morphology and the small inflorescence are those of the variable and widespread N. tentaculata with which N. murudensis has also been confused. Nepenthes tentaculata differs from N. murudensis in being a much more slender species with multicellular hairs on an ovate lid. Both N. reinwardtiana and N. tentaculata have glabrous stems unlike the densely velvety hairy stem of N. murudensis.