Species Described in 1973 - Animals Described in 1973, Plants Described in 1973, Nepenthes Rhombicaulis, Nepenthes Campanulata (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Animals Described in 1973, Plants Described in 1973, Nepenthes Rhombicaulis, Nepenthes Campanulata, Hibiscadelphus Distans, Citrus Halimii, Sudanese Fairy Shrimp, Dorstenia Ramosa, Dorstenia Grazielae, Streptocephalus Moorei, Romanogobio Elimeius, Lirceus Usdagalun, Daphnia Jollyi, Paramelita Barnardi. Excerpt: Nepenthes rhombicaulis (pronounced ) is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Sumatra. The specific epithet rhombicaulis is formed from the Latin words rhombicus, meaning "rhomboid", and caulis, "stem". It refers to the cross-sectional shape of the stem internodes. Upper pitchers were first reported in 1993Nepenthes rhombicaulis was first collected by Shigeo Kurata on March 29, 1972, on Mount Pangulubao at an altitude of between 1700 and 1900 m above sea level. It was described by Kurata the following year in the Gardens' Bulletin Singapore. One of the original specimens, Kurata 4300, was designated as the holotype of the species and is deposited at the Nippon Dental College. An isotype is held at the National Herbarium of Singapore. Kurata's illustration of the type specimen shows a small apical appendage on the underside of the pitcher lid. However, Matthew Jebb and Martin Cheek pointed out that this feature is not present in the isotype held in Singapore. Kurata suggested that the appendage might be a developmental defect and of little significance. Observations made at the type locality by Charles Clarke and Ch'ien Lee seem to confirm this; while some wild plants exhibit this appendage, most do not. In the 1983 book Carnivorous Plants of the World in Colour by Katsuhiko and Masahiro Kondo, a photograph of N. gymnamphora is identified as N. rhombicaulis. In 1993, Bruce Salmon postulated that the lower pitchers of N. rhombicaulis are... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4859298