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Nepenthes burkei

{{short description|Species of pitcher plant from the Philippines}}

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|image = Nepenthes_burkei_ASR_062007_mt_halcon_mindoro.jpg

|image_caption = Nepenthes burkei lower pitcher. Mount Halcon, Mindoro.

|genus = Nepenthes

|species = burkei

|authority = Hort.Veitch ex Mast. (1889)Masters, M.T. 1889. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25922666 New or noteworthy plants. Nepenthes Burkeii.] The Gardeners' Chronicle, series 3, 6(149): 492–493.

|synonyms = *Nepenthes burkeii
Hort.Veitch ex Mast. (1889)
[original spelling]

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Nepenthes burkei, named after British plant collector David Burke, {{cn|date=September 2019}} is a tropical pitcher plant native to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, where it grows at an elevation of 1100–2000 m.McPherson, S.R. 2009. Pitcher Plants of the Old World. 2 volumes. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole. It is very closely related to N. sibuyanensis and N. ventricosa. It has only recently entered wider cultivation.

Infraspecific taxa

Two varieties of N. burkei have been described.

  • Nepenthes burkei var. excellens Hort.Veitch ex Marshall (1890)
  • Nepenthes burkei var. prolifica Mast. (1890)Masters, M.T. 1890. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25924768 New or noteworthy plants. Nepenthes Burkeii Mast. var. prolifica.] The Gardeners' Chronicle, series 3, 8(190): 184.

Natural hybrids

References

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Further reading

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  • [Anonymous] 1889. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25922560 Nepenthes at Messrs. Veitch's.] The Gardeners' Chronicle, series 3, 6(145): 388.
  • [Anonymous] 1889. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25922744 Nepenthes Burkeii.] The Gardeners' Chronicle, series 3, 6(151): 566.
  • 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. {{doi|10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02406.x}}
  • Co, L. & W. Suarez 2012. [http://www.philippineplants.org/Families/Nepenthaceae.html Nepenthaceae]. Co's Digital Flora of the Philippines.
  • {{in lang|fr}} Jarry-Desloges, R. 1903. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8860522 Variétés nouvelles ou rares de Nepenthes]. Le Jardin 17: 72.
  • Kurata, S. 1968. Mindoro/North Borneo Expedition. Part 1&2. The Journal of Insectivorous Plant Society No. 45.
  • Kurata, S. & M. Toyoshima 1972. Philippine species of Nepenthes. The Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 26(1): 155–158. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110722151730/http://www.sbg.org.sg/research/publicationbulletin.asp?sRange=1970-1979&sYear=1972 Abstract]
  • Macfarlane, J.M. 1927. The Philippine species of Nepenthes. The Philippine Journal of Science 33(2): 127–140.
  • McPherson, S.R. & V.B. Amoroso 2011. Field Guide to the Pitcher Plants of the Philippines. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole.
  • {{in lang|de}} McPherson, S. & T. Gronemeyer 2008. Die Nepenthesarten der Philippinen: eine Fotodokumentation. Das Taublatt 60: 34–78.
  • {{in lang|de}} Meimberg, H. 2002. [http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1078/1/Meimberg_Harald.pdf 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. {{doi|10.1055/s-2006-924676}}

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External links

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  • [http://www.cpphotofinder.com/nepenthes-burkei-657.html Photographs of N. burkei] at the Carnivorous Plant Photofinder

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Category:Endemic flora of the Philippines

Category:Carnivorous plants of Asia

Category:Plants described in 1889

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