Nepenthes campanulata
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Description
Terrestrial shrublet to 30 cm tall.
Leaves coriaceous, sessile, obovate, 5-9 by 1.2-2.5 cm, apex rounded, peltate by 0.1-0.4 cm, base attenuate, margin regularly undulate and sinuate.
Inflorescence unknown.
Fruit and seed unknown.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present, E Kalimantan present, Ilas Bungaan present, Malaysian Borneo present
Borneo: E Kalimantan (Ilas Bungaan) and Malaysian Borneo.
Notes
1 In other species with strongly infundibuliform pitchers such as N. dubia, N. eymae, and N. inermis the lid is very narrow, and before opening the pitcher is laterally flattened along its length. Nepenthes campanulata on the other hand has a relatively small, elliptic lid. Thus after opening, the mouth of these pitchers must expand far more than is the norm in the genus. In this respect they are similar to the pitchers of N. reinwardtiana which has a broad infundibuliform pitcher with a wide mouth, but a relatively small lid and a very reduced peristome. The pitchers are not clearly differentiated as either upper or lower pitchers. The pitcher tendrils do not twine, but are short and bent abruptly, as in N. pervillei of the Seychelles. No flowering material of this species is known.
2. This species was reported to be absent from the type locality in 1987, the whole area having been burnt over during the drought of 1982. It is possible that the species is now extinct at this location. However, it has recently been discovered at an unspecified second site in Malaysian Borneo (Chi’en Lee: website http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.malesiana.tropicals.com.my/tropicals/campanulata.html (original link defunct; linking to Internet Archive instead)).