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Nepenthes n. : Same as Nepenthe.

Nepenthes n. : A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.

Example:
When is it safe to feed Nepenthes their first bugs?

Taxonomy
species, Nepenthes, plants, pitchers, pitcher plants, Nepenthes species, mirabilis, Bandura, alata, lid, genus Nepenthes, highland, hybrids, predator and prey, seed, Pitcher-Plants, Herbarium, Beaver.

Defination from the web:
Nepenthes was formally published as a generic name in 1753 in Linnaeus's famous Species Plantarum, which established botanical nomenclature as it ... It was around the same time that German botanist Georg Eberhard Rumphius discovered two new Nepenthes species in the Malay Archipelago. ... 

synonyms
  (noun) Nepenthes
  (noun) genus Nepenthes
  (noun) dicot genus
  (noun) magnoliopsid genus


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