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Nepenthes kitanglad

Nepenthes kitanglad
Photo: Stewart McPherson, CC BY-SA 3.0

Nepenthes kitanglad is a tropical pitcher plant from Mount Kitanglad in Mindanao, Philippines, where it grows as an epiphyte in mossy montane forest at about 1,800 to 2,100 m. Grow it as a cool-to-intermediate, humid epiphytic carnivorous plant with bright light and constantly moist, airy media.

Family
Nepenthaceae (Pitcher-plant family)
Grows as
Epiphyte
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the medium constantly moist using rainwater or distilled water, and never let it dry out.
Soil
Very open, acidic mix such as sphagnum moss with orchid bark or perlite.
Temperature
Cool to intermediate, roughly 15 to 25 °C; protect from heat above about 30 °C and from frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Philippines (Mindanao)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Nepenthes kitanglad is a tropical pitcher plant native to the Philippines. It is known only from Mount Kitanglad in Bukidnon Province, Mindanao, where it has been recorded as an epiphyte in mossy forest at 1,800–2,100 m altitude. This species belongs to the informal "N. alata group", which also includes N. alata, N. ceciliae, N. copelandii, N. extincta, N. graciliflora, N. hamiguitanensis, N. kurata, N. leyte, N. mindanaoensis, N. negros, N. ramos, N. saranganiensis, and N. ultra. These species are united by a number of morphological characters, including winged petioles, lids with basal ridges on the lower surface (often elaborated into appendages), and upper pitchers that are usually broadest near the base.

Nepenthes kitanglad was illustrated in the second volume of Stewart McPherson's 2009 work, Pitcher Plants of the Old World, where it was tentatively identified as N.

Other Nepenthes plants

Nepenthes abalata · Nepenthes abgracilis · Nepenthes adnata · Nepenthes aenigma · Nepenthes alata · Nepenthes alba · Nepenthes albomarginata · Nepenthes alfredoi · Nepenthes alzapan · Flask-Shaped Pitcher-Plant · Nepenthes andamana · Nepenthes angasanensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nepenthes kitanglad by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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