4 new species of Nepenthes
 

Hello,


Four species of Nepenthes have just been formerly described and their description will be published in Stewart McPherson new books. These will be available in the following days.
1/"Nepenthes gantungensis, a new pitcher plant species from Mount Gantung, Palawan, Philipines." 2010. McPherson S., J. Cervancia, C. Lee, M. Jauzems, A. Fleischmann, F. Mey, E. Gironella, A. Robinson. In: S.R. McPherson. Carnivorous Plants in their Habitats. Redfern Natural History Productions Ltd., Poole (Appendix).
http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index...howtopic=35684

2/"Nepenthes palawanensis (Nepenthenceae), a new pitcher plant species from Sultan Peak, Palawan Island, Philipines." 2010. McPherson S., J. Cervancia, C. Lee, M. Jauzems, A. Fleischmann, F. Mey, E. Gironella, A. Robinson. In: S.R. McPherson. Carnivorous Plants in their Habitats. Redfern Natural History Productions Ltd., Poole (Appendix).
http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index...howtopic=35682

3/ "Nepenthes holdenii (Nepenthaceae), a new pyrophytic species of pitcher plant from the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia." 2010. Mey F. S., M. Catalano, C. Clarke, A. Robinson, A. Fleischmann, S. McPherson. In: S.R. McPherson. Carnivorous Plants in their Habitats. Redfern Natural History Productions Ltd., Poole (Appendix).
(The paper also provides a definition of the "Nepenthes thorelii aggregate" - the group of all the "thorelii" related species and a key to separate them.)
http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index...howtopic=33546
4/ "Nepenthes hamiguitanensis (Nepenthaceae), a new pitcher plant from Mindanao Island, Philippines". 2010. Gronemeyer T., A. Wistuba, V. Heinrich, S. McPherson, F. Mey, V. Amoroso. In: S.R. McPherson. Carnivorous Plants in their Habitats. Redfern Natural History Productions Ltd., Poole (Appendix).
http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index...howtopic=36678


All the best,

François.

Re: 4 new species of Nepenthes
 

Wow they look.. unique o.o

Re: 4 new species of Nepenthes
 

Hi François,
Why did you publish in scientific journal? It may better for use as scientific work. I just suggest.

Re: 4 new species of Nepenthes
 

Thanks for sharing François, looks like Philipines and Indonchina is the last frontier to new nep discoveries.... :1thumbup:

Re: 4 new species of Nepenthes
 

If I can reply for François, I guess you mean "why you didn't pubblish those articles in a scientific magazine?".
Because there's no difference. The rules of taxonomy only ask that a new species must be published through a document printed in a good amount of copies, easily available to the general pubblic. There's no difference if it appears on a book or on a magazine, its scientific value is exactely the same. Charles Clarke, MacPherson, Robinson and others published new Nepenthes species using books, me and François are the last of a long list. Not to mention the rest of the plant kingdom :)
The reason why we do this is usually a matter of time. If I discover a new species, I will make my description in 1 month. Then I only need to pubblish it. I look around and I see that the ICPS can publish it in 4 years, the ACPS in 1 year, "X" botanical journal in 6 years, and MacPherson in 3 months, because he's going to pubblish a book very soon. So I go for MacPherson. François pubblished N. bokorensis on the journal of ACPS, because it was the fastest option at the time.

What we actually want is that the description is reviewed (checked) by other Nepenthes experts. I would be worried if a "serious" botanist, but WITHOUT experience in the Nepenthes field, using a "very" scientific magazine, published a new species without having checked his description with some Nepenthes experts! :)

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Hi eboat,

Marcello gave a comprehensive answer. I shall also add that publishing in a book allowed me to use virtually as much space as I want. My holdenii and thorelii papers covered more 50 pages alone. I coud never have published so much pages in a regular botanical journal.

The description of N. holdenii is now available online:
"Nepenthes holdenii (Nepenthaceae), a new pyrophytic species of pitcher plant from the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia". 2010. Mey F. S., M. Catalano, C. Clarke, A. Robinson, A. Fleischmann, S. McPherson. In: S.R. McPherson. Carnivorous Plants in their Habitats. Redfern Natural History Productions Ltd., Poole (Appendix).
http://www.carnivorousplants.it/desc.holdenii.pdf

François.