N. Smilesii

[marcellocatalano]

Kevin: that's an interesting plant, I can see that the leaves are hairy, which rules out N. kampotiana, and the pitchers look a bit like N. thorelii. Keep in mind that N. thorelii and N. smilesii might eventually result to be very close (Cheek even said they might be the same thing, but to me that's too extreme), especially because we don't know much about the range of shapes that N. smilesii might have in southern Vietnam, a part from Dalat. We don't know much about N. thorelii, but we know it's hairy like smilesii, while the pitchers are rounder, sometimes (or always?) globose. Ask Yuping where he got his plant, if it comes as a cutting or tuber from a not-well-identified source in Vietnam (=basically one of the plants poached last year) then it's likely N. thorelii.