Re: Nepenthes gracilis? Or nep........???
According to my earlier contacts in Japan, who visited these sites a few times back in the 1980's, there are several populations in southern Luzon where N. ventrata and N. alata grow sympatric, or in close proximity, and retrogressive hybrids are very common, in fact so common, that it is nearly impossible to find a true species in some places, even of N. alata!
This plant may have been the result of a deliberate backcross of a N. ventrata with a N. alata, but it's still lumped into the N. ventrata complex by most experts. - Rich
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