Nepenthes Boschiana

''Nepenthes boschiana'' (; after Johannes van den Bosch), or Bosch's pitcher-plant,Phillipps, A. & A. Lamb 1996. ''Pitcher-Plants of Borneo''. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu. is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Meratus Mountains in South Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. It is most closely allied to '' N. faizaliana''. ''Nepenthes borneensis'' is considered a synonym of this species.Clarke, C.M. 1997. ''Nepenthes of Borneo''. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu. ''Nepenthes boschiana'' has no known natural hybrids.McPherson, S.R. 2009. ''Pitcher Plants of the Old World''. 2 volumes. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole. No valid forms or varieties have been described. ''Nepenthes boschiana'' belongs to the loosely defined "''N. maxima'' complex", which also includes, among other species, '' N. chaniana'', '' N. epiphytica'', '' N. eymae'', '' N. faizaliana'', '' N. fusca'', '' N. klossii'', '' N. maxima'', '' N. platychila'', '' N. stenophylla'', and '' N. vogelii''.Robinson, A.S., J. Nerz & A. Wistuba 2011. ''Nepenthes epiphytica'', a new pitcher plant from East Kalimantan. In: McPherson, S.R. '' New Nepenthes: Volume One''. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole. pp. 36–51.

The species was formally described by Pieter Willem Korthals in his 1839 monograph, " Over het geslacht ''Nepenthes''". B. H. Danser, in his 1928 monograph "The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies", wrote the following:

Korthals states the natives who accompanied him on Mt. Sakoembang gathered the not yet opened pitchers, as the water which they contained was a medicament against inflammation of the eyes, whereas others cut the opened pitchers as playthings for their children. He describes the habitat as sterile, open and stony. The vernacular name '''daoen sompitan''' is translated by him as blow-pipe-leaf; according to dictionaries this is right.

Image:Nepenthes boschiana Over het geslacht Nepenthes 1839.jpg, Original illustration of ''N. boschiana'' from 1839 by Pieter Willem Korthals
Image:Nepenthes boschiana (Bogor botanical park).jpg, Specimen in the Bogor Botanical Gardens

Infraspecific taxa

*''Nepenthes boschiana'' var. ''lowii'' Hook.f. (1873) Hooker, J.D. 1873. Ordo CLXXV bis. Nepenthaceæ. In: A. de Candolle '' Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis'' 17: 90–105. N. stenophylla''">'' N. stenophylla''*''Nepenthes boschiana'' var. ''sumatrana'' Miq. (1858) N. sumatrana''">Nepenthes_sumatrana.html" ;"title="''Nepenthes sumatrana">N. sumatrana''

References

Further reading

* Adam, J.H. & C.C. Wilcock 1989. A new ''Nepenthes'' from Gunong Besar, Kalimantan Selatan, Borneo. ''The Gardens' Bulletin Singapore'' 42(1): 25–28.
* Adam, J.H., C.C. Wilcock & M.D. Swaine 1992
The ecology and distribution of Bornean ''Nepenthes''.
''Journal of Tropical Forest Science'' 5(1): 13–25.
* Bauer, U., C.J. Clemente, T. Renner & W. Federle 2012. Form follows function: morphological diversification and alternative trapping strategies in carnivorous ''Nepenthes'' pitcher plants. ''Journal of Evolutionary Biology'' 25(1): 90–102.
* Blume, C.L. 1852
Ord. Nepenthaceae.
In:
Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavum, sive stirpium exoticarum novarum vel minus cognitarum ex vivis aut siccis brevis expositio. Tom. II. Nr. 1.
' E.J. Brill, Lugduni-Batavorum. pp. 5–10.
* Clarke, C.M. 2006. Introduction. In: Danser, B.H. ''The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies''. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu. pp. 1–15.
* Hooker, J.D. 1859
XXXV. On the origin and development of the pitchers of ''Nepenthes'', with an account of some new Bornean plants of that genus
''The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London'' 22(4): 415–424.
* McPherson, S.R. & A. Robinson 2012. ''Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of Borneo''. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole.
* Meimberg, H., A. Wistuba, P. Dittrich & G. Heubl 2001. Molecular phylogeny of Nepenthaceae based on cladistic analysis of plastid trnK intron sequence data. ''Plant Biology'' 3(2): 164–175.
* Meimberg, H. 2002.�
Molekular-systematische Untersuchungen an den Familien Nepenthaceae und Ancistrocladaceae sowie verwandter Taxa aus der Unterklasse Caryophyllidae s. l..
Ph.D. thesis, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich.
* Meimberg, H. & G. Heubl 2006. Introduction of a nuclear marker for phylogenetic analysis of Nepenthaceae. ''Plant Biology'' 8(6): 831–840.
* Meimberg, H., S. Thalhammer, A. Brachmann & G. Heubl 2006. Comparative analysis of a translocated copy of the ''trnK'' intron in carnivorous family Nepenthaceae. ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' 39(2): 478–490.
* Mey, F.S. 2014

''Strange Fruits: A Garden's Chronicle'', February 21, 2014.
* Renner, T. & C.D. Specht 2011. A sticky situation: assessing adaptations for plant carnivory in the Caryophyllales by means of stochastic character mapping. ''International Journal of Plant Sciences'' 172(7): 889–901.
* Teysmann, M.J.E. 1859
Énumération des plantes envoyées de Java au jardin botanique de l'Université de Leide.
''Annales d'horticulture et de botanique, ou Flore des jardins du royaume des Pays-Bas, et histoire des plantes cultivées les plus intéressantes des possessions néerlandaises aux Indes orientales, de l'Amérique et du Japon'' 2: 133–142.

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