Nepenthes burkei

Nepenthes burkei
Nepenthes burkei lower pitcher. Mount Halcon, Mindoro.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nepenthaceae
Genus: Nepenthes
Species:
N. burkei
Binomial name
Nepenthes burkei
Hort.Veitch ex Mast. (1889)[1]
Synonyms

Nepenthes burkei, named after British plant collector David Burke, [citation needed] is a tropical pitcher plant native to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, where it grows at an elevation of 1100–2000 m.[2] It is very closely related to N. sibuyanensis and N. ventricosa. It has only recently entered wider cultivation.

Infraspecific taxa[edit]

Two varieties of N. burkei have been described.

  • Nepenthes burkei var. excellens Hort.Veitch ex Marshall (1890)
  • Nepenthes burkei var. prolifica Mast. (1890)[3]

Natural hybrids[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Masters, M.T. 1889. New or noteworthy plants. Nepenthes Burkeii. The Gardeners' Chronicle, series 3, 6(149): 492–493.
  2. ^ a b McPherson, S.R. 2009. Pitcher Plants of the Old World. 2 volumes. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole.
  3. ^ Masters, M.T. 1890. New or noteworthy plants. Nepenthes Burkeii Mast. var. prolifica. The Gardeners' Chronicle, series 3, 8(190): 184.

Further reading[edit]

  • [Anonymous] 1889. Nepenthes at Messrs. Veitch's. The Gardeners' Chronicle, series 3, 6(145): 388.
  • [Anonymous] 1889. Nepenthes Burkeii. The Gardeners' Chronicle, series 3, 6(151): 566.
  • Bauer, U., C.J. Clemente, T. Renner & W. Federle 2012. Form follows function: morphological diversification and alternative trapping strategies in carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plants. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25(1): 90–102. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02406.x
  • Co, L. & W. Suarez 2012. Nepenthaceae. Co's Digital Flora of the Philippines.
  • (in French) Jarry-Desloges, R. 1903. Variétés nouvelles ou rares de Nepenthes. Le Jardin 17: 72.
  • Kurata, S. 1968. Mindoro/North Borneo Expedition. Part 1&2. The Journal of Insectivorous Plant Society No. 45.
  • Kurata, S. & M. Toyoshima 1972. Philippine species of Nepenthes. The Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 26(1): 155–158. Abstract
  • Macfarlane, J.M. 1927. The Philippine species of Nepenthes. The Philippine Journal of Science 33(2): 127–140.
  • McPherson, S.R. & V.B. Amoroso 2011. Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the Philippines. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole.
  • (in German) McPherson, S. & T. Gronemeyer 2008. Die Nepenthesarten der Philippinen: eine Fotodokumentation. Das Taublatt 60: 34–78.
  • (in German) Meimberg, H. 2002. Molekular-systematische Untersuchungen an den Familien Nepenthaceae und Ancistrocladaceae sowie verwandter Taxa aus der Unterklasse Caryophyllidae s. l.. Ph.D. thesis, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich.
  • Meimberg, H. & G. Heubl 2006. Introduction of a nuclear marker for phylogenetic analysis of Nepenthaceae. Plant Biology 8(6): 831–840. doi:10.1055/s-2006-924676

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