Neat name!
> Thai and Philippine material reveals several grassland adapted
> species with sub-terranean storage organs that reflect an evolutionary
> divergence which no doubt dates from the extensive Pleistocene
> grassland-Savanna plains.
>
Whoa! Tuberous Nepenthes?! Pitcher plants from the glacier's edge! Mid-
Pleistocene! Everything was bigger then. Bigger sloths, bigger horses,
probably bigger flies... Nepenthes the size of wash-basins! Slurping
down mammoth-gnats and packing the fat in their tuberous larder! :-)
Michael
> Best Wishes,
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> Matthew.
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