Neue (alte) Nepenthes Spezies

[Icarus 189]

Nepenthes truncata Queen of Hearts bzw. auch King of Spades, also die Elternteile des Berühmten KoH x KoS sind scheinbar nun als eigene Spezies beschrieben worden. siehe folgenden Link, ab Seite 2 wirds interessant: http://terraforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=129365

"Copied from Mr. Cantley himself, over on pitcherplants.proboards

"Good grief! What an awful newspaper article! I gave a long telephone interview to an intelligent journalist from the Independent a couple of days back, so I do hope that some better and more accurate articles will be forthcoming - PLEASE!

Firstly and fore-mostly, Paul, this really is not some sort of marketing ploy. We sold pretty much all the seedlings ages ago and tried to keep the price reasonable so that it could be spread far and wide. We kept back 300 plants but actually they are already sold, we’re just holding them until the project that bought them is ready to take them. It’s been interesting though, as they are mature enough now to see that there is very little difference in morphology between individuals, so we’re not dealing with a hybrid here. Martins paper goes into this in some depth.

I, and every taxonomist who has seen the plants, have known this is a distinct species for many years but until it was published, we couldn’t talk about it, as we knew it was being described elsewhere and it became a race to publish. Martin's paper will be appearing in the December issue of the Nordic Journal of Botany (NJB) any day now but an abstract is already available

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...449.x/abstract

Martin Cheek actually wrote the paper 1 ½ years ago and it’s taken that long to get it published. If you see the entire paper – which will be downloadable free I believe from the NJB website - he refers in the paper to our most recent Chelsea appearance being in 2010. So slowly do the cogs of academia turn!

The paper goes into detail of course as to why this is a new species. Not just the fact that it has wings on the pitchers when N. truncata does not, or that the peristome ribs are so widely spaced but the flower is different and the glandular structure under the lid is utterly different, being pretty much identical to N. veitchii and nothing like N. truncata.

As to the name, I didn’t have an inkling what name Martin would choose until after the paper was written. Can’t say I mind really.

So, it’s time to change your labels I’m afraid!

Merry Christmas everyone and happy New Year!

Rob"

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