Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:53:51 +0000 From: schlauer@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3791$foo@default> Subject: Re: More Thai Nepenthes Photos
Dear Tom,
> Checking the N. mirabilis it did have ciliate leaf margins and a gap
> in the upper margin of the peristome I'll try and get a better photo
> of this later this month.
OK, in this case it is very probably _N. mirabilis_.
> As for sites all these Thai plants came from a Nepenthes nursery as
> cultivated plants. Yes even the one growing in the grasses. So I
> don't know where they came from prior to that.
Hmm, so the plants may even be of foreign (non Thai) origin. This
makes things much more complicated.
> Now for the Philippines this is a different matter. Thousands of plants,
> unlimited hybrids and species are on Mt. Legaspi. N. merrilliana and belli
> start out near the 1208km with alata's, mirabilis's, wilkei's, petiolata's
> on up towards the top with N. truncata near the PNP station. A plant about
> every 2 meters with natural hybrids mixed in. Hope this is close enough.
Oh yes, definitely. Thanks. But _N. wilkiei_ has so far been known
only from Palawan. Did you find similar plants on Mt. Legaspi? This
would be a considerable (NB: I do not mean impossible!) range
extension.
Kind regards
Jan
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