Scientists have discovered a new species of pitcher plant with leaves covered in hairs that resemble orangutan fur. It is ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of pitcher plant on the Malaysian island of Borneo, whose leaves are covered with hairs resembling orangutan fur. This plant, named Nepenthes pongoides ...

Orangutan pitcher plant (Nepenthes pongoides) just discovered in Sabah, on the tropical island of ... [+] Borneo. (Credit: Alastair Robinson.) An international team of botanists report they have ...

A newly described species of pitcher plant, one of the largest and furriest ever found, has been identified on a wild mountain in Borneo, Malaysia. The underside of the leaves of Nepenthes ...

More information: Alviana Damit et al, Sabah's hidden giant: Nepenthes pongoides (Nepenthaceae), a micro-endemic tropical pitcher plant from northern Borneo, Australian Journal of Botany (2024).

Nepenthes are fragile slow-growing plants and many species are severely threatened by habitat destruction. Most species in cultivation today have been introduced by Borneo Exotics who are the world's ...

This discovery was published in the paper: “Sabah's hidden giant: Nepenthes pongoides (Nepenthaceae), a micro-endemic tropical pitcher plant from northern Borneo. Australian Journal of Botany 72 ...

Loading And another species, found in Borneo and called Nepenthes rajah, had rats found in it a couple of times, Robinson said. He and scientists from Malaysia’s Sandakan Herbarium documented ...