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Nepenthes ampullaria
The pitchers of N. ampullaria from Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia are almost exclusively green throughout or green with red speckles, unlike other members of its genus, has evolved away from carnivory and the plants are partly detritivores, collecting and digesting falling leaf litter in their pitchers.
Spotted during a day walk at Tanjung Puting National Park (Tropical forest) - Central Kalimantan, Borneo - Indonesia. It is a widespread species of tropical pitcher plant present in Borneo, the Maluku Islands, New Guinea, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, and Thailand. In Borneo, it occurs usually on relatively flat terrain in kerangas forest, peat swamp forest, and degraded swamp forest, at elevations of 0 to 1000 m.
Nepenthes ampullaria has largely moved away from carnivory and acquires a substantial portion of its nutrients from digesting leaf matter that falls to the forest floor. It is thus partially detritivorous. Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Core eudicots Order: Caryophyllales Family: Nepenthaceae Genus: Nepenthes Species: N. ampullaria
Spotted on Apr 12, 2017
Submitted on May 30, 2017
5 Comments
Thanks so much!
Awesome find Jordi,congrats on the well deserved SOTD and thanks for sharing
Congratulations Jordi!
Amazing plants. Congrats again Jordi.
Congratulation Jordi, this fabulous pitcher plant is our Spotting of the Day!
"This fabulous pitcher plant (Nepenthes ampullaria) is our Spotting of the Day! Found in the rainforests of southeast Asian islands, Nepenthes ampullaria has largely moved away from being carnivorous as other members of its genus, and derives a good portion of its nutrients from leaf detritus falling on the forest floor. This pitcher's infauna (organisms that inhabit the pitcher) include one of the smallest known species of Old World frog, Microhyla nepenthicola, and the crab spider, Misumenops nepenthicola.
Find out more about this species adaptation to being partially detritivorous here: http://buff.ly/2rqxcpI".
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