intermediate highland neps
 

found above 1000m and the red form seem very common at certain location. The leaves are longer and pitchers are tubby than their lowland cousin.

red form
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some upper pitchers loss their red


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some zones overgrown with sphagnum moss and ground so soggy but they thrive well, this one was growing by roadside squeezed inbetween a monsoon drain. Note the monsoon drain are covered with sphg.moss.

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a matured flowers bearing female plant overgrown and vining among the tall shrubs

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another interesting and common ones was stenophylla. Sharing the same habitat as reinwardtiana. Note the thick carpet of sphagnum moss.
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growing by the sides of all-weather road
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a flowering male

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a relatively uncommon nature hybrid-possibly stenophylla x reinwardtiana. The leaves resembled steno., and young
pitchers at young stage are hard to differentiate between steno, unless fully developed as in the followings.

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Re: intermediate highland neps
 

Yay more pics of neps in the wild i just love to see them..........Well to me 1000m is still intermediate....I like the first pic the most so reddish.......What nep is it??? N alata??? N mirabilis??

Ken

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Wow,your pics of the reinwardtiana is stunning Robert.
Thanx for sharing;)

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Okays didn't know it was that i didn't see the eye spots........Well anyways always tried Iding as much as possible so that i can reconize them.....Looks like this time i failed again hehehehe.....At least reinwardtiana is related to alata

Ken

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oh sorry missed out adding the species.Ali was right it was reinwardtiana.

Re: intermediate highland neps
 

So that's how a wild red reinwarthiana looks like. I just love the shimmery glow on it pitchers. Just like a polished Ferrari car or plastic plants.

In the 3rd and 4th picture, is that sphagnum moss in the water? Or are they water plants?

The stenophylla uppers are elegant.

Re: intermediate highland neps
 

David, those are sphagnum moss. They are everywhere-growing on the drain and along the forest trail.

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Nice pics. The first picture of reinwardtianas unopen pitcher looks like chili. Is all stenophylla grow near the river or drain. They look very healthy growing in wet medium. I thought stenophylla are epiphytic neps.
Thanks.

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I can only 'second' all the above comments. Great to see such beautiful neps in their natural habitat. That reinwardtiana is stunning! I have a few seedlings of a N. sanguniea x reinwardtiana and if any of them survive my lowland conditions, I sure hope they resemble these! Thanks for sharing these shots Robert. Your fourth picture is one for the books, with all the angles covered in one view! Did you see any lowers (reinwardtiana)?

Re: intermediate highland neps
 

Thanks Shawn. I took some shots of the lower reinwardtiana in another location last year. There are some plants with lower pitchers situated on very soggy ground, i gave up.

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Wow, beautiful neps! so that is reinwardtiana......cool.

Cheers

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Interesting find as always, Robert. Thanks for sharing with us, how I wish to go out looking for wild neps such as these on weekends, Borneo is undoubtly a nep paradise !!

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Robert, nice pictures and thanks for sharing.

Andrew

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Thanks for the comments. yes, for jungle trekking the best time was weekends and holidays.

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I noticed the reinwardtiana upper look very similar (shape and peristome) to the upper of gracilis, interesting...

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we can put 2-3 nos. of gracilis inside the reinwardtiana:biggrin::laugh:

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Haha... actually, the gracilis I saw is pretty similar in size to the reinwardtianas in your pics...

Here a pic that I took recently of a gracilis upper
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Sorry should have use an object for size comparison, can use the size of sphanum moss in the backgroud to make a rough estimate :blush:?? Will bring a measuring tape like what you did in your outings.... :laugh: I learn as I go... :blush:

Re: intermediate highland neps
 

Thanks for sharing Robert.The Gracilis upper could be big.I have seen some big Gracilis uppers at Kledang Hill.