Kew scientists Martin Cheek and Charles King recently described and assessed the Nepenthes maximoides sp. nov. in the international scientific journal PeerJ.
It was “initially set aside since it seemed to have been mislabelled as from Luzon” and was thought the specimen was Nepenthes maxima Nees found in Indonesia.According to the researchers, Nepenthes maximoides is a “spectacular, large, narrowly funnel-shaped upper pitchers, lids with recurved basal and filiform apical appendages, unlike any other species in the Philippines, closely resemble those of N. maxima of Sulawesi–New Guinea, likely due to convergent evolution.
The researchers described and assessed Nepenthes maximoides as “critically endangered, possibly extinct, as it appears unrecorded in 110 years.
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