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Nepenthes rajah

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Internal ID UUID643ff66900525275234569
Scientific name Nepenthes rajah
Authority Hook.f.
First published in in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 22: 421, t. 72. 1859.

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Language Common/alternative name
English giant malaysian pitcher plant
English pitcher plant
English rajah brooke's pitcher plant
English giant pitcher plant
Arabic نابنط راجا
Bulgarian гигантски непентес
Czech láčkovka rádža
cv Непентес Раджа
Persian گیاهپارچ راجا
Finnish sabahinkannukasvi
Japanese オオウツボカズラ
Georgian ნეპენტეს რაჯა
Georgian ნეფენთეს რაჯა
Georgian ნეფენტეს რაჯა
Georgian ნეპენთეს რაჯა
Lithuanian didysis ąsotenis
Polish dzbanecznik radży
Russian Непентес Раджа
Swedish kungskannranka
Chinese 馬來王豬籠草
Chinese 豬王豬籠草
Chinese 王侯猪笼草
Chinese 猪王猪笼草
Chinese 拉贾猪笼草
Chinese 拉賈豬籠草
Chinese 马来王猪笼草
Chinese 王侯豬籠草

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000381453
Tropicos 100479436
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:603791-1
The Plant List kew-2383374
Open Tree Of Life 610896
NCBI Taxonomy 150991
IUCN Red List 39690
IPNI 603791-1
iNaturalist 441244
GBIF 3702163
Freebase /m/09_jvq
Elurikkus 398699
USDA GRIN 319287
Wikipedia Nepenthes_rajah

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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Capture of mammal excreta by Nepenthes is an effective heterotrophic nutrition strategy Cross AT, van der Ent A, Wickmann M, Skates LM, Sumail S, Gebauer G, Robinson A Ann Bot 28-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9851329
doi:10.1093/aob/mcac134
PMID:36306274
Coprophagous features in carnivorous Nepenthes plants: a task for ureases Yilamujiang A, Zhu A, Ligabue-Braun R, Bartram S, Witte CP, Hedrich R, Hasabe M, Schöner CR, Schöner MG, Kerth G, Carlini CR, Mithöfer A Sci Rep 14-Sep-2017
PMCID:PMC5599630
doi:10.1038/s41598-017-11999-z
PMID:28912541
Potential effects of climate change on members of the Palaeotropical pitcher plant family Nepenthaceae Gray LK, Clarke C, Wint GR, Moran JA PLoS One 17-Aug-2017
PMCID:PMC5560657
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0183132
PMID:28817596
Ultramafic geoecology of South and Southeast Asia Galey ML, van der Ent A, Iqbal MC, Rajakaruna N Bot Stud 03-Apr-2017
PMCID:PMC5432931
doi:10.1186/s40529-017-0167-9
PMID:28510201
Different pitcher shapes and trapping syndromes explain resource partitioning in Nepenthes species Gaume L, Bazile V, Huguin M, Bonhomme V Ecol Evol 03-Feb-2016
PMCID:PMC4739188
doi:10.1002/ece3.1920
PMID:26865951
Pittosporum peridoticola (Pittosporaceae), a new ultramafic obligate species restricted to Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia) Sugau JB, van der Ent A Bot Stud 01-Feb-2016
PMCID:PMC5432921
doi:10.1186/s40529-016-0119-9
PMID:28510789
Range extension of Christisoniascortechinii from mainland Southeast Asia into Borneo, and notes on the distinction between Aeginetia and Christisonia (Orobanchaceae) van der Ent A, Wong KM Bot Stud 05-Oct-2015
PMCID:PMC5430350
doi:10.1186/s40529-015-0109-3
PMID:28510837
Interspecific variation in prey capture behavior by co-occurring Nepenthes pitcher plants: Evidence for resource partitioning or sampling-scheme artifacts? Chin L, Chung AY, Clarke C Plant Signal Behav 30-Jan-2014
PMCID:PMC4091343
doi:10.4161/psb.27930
PMID:24481246
Capture mechanism in Palaeotropical pitcher plants (Nepenthaceae) is constrained by climate Moran JA, Gray LK, Clarke C, Chin L Ann Bot 23-Aug-2013
PMCID:PMC3806527
doi:10.1093/aob/mct195
PMID:23975653
Tuning of color contrast signals to visual sensitivity maxima of tree shrews by three Bornean highland Nepenthes species Moran JA, Clarke C, Greenwood M, Chin L Plant Signal Behav 01-Oct-2012
PMCID:PMC3493410
doi:10.4161/psb.21661
PMID:22902686
Correction: A Unique Resource Mutualism between the Giant Bornean Pitcher Plant, Nepenthes rajah, and Members of a Small Mammal Community Greenwood M, Clarke C, Lee CC, Gunsalam A, Clarke RH PLoS One 03-Jan-2012
PMCID:PMC3250513
doi:10.1371/annotation/1ee8d7d0-eff5-431f-9059-c7dbf1bde347
Quite a few reasons for calling carnivores ‘the most wonderful plants in the world’ Król E, Płachno BJ, Adamec L, Stolarz M, Dziubińska H, Trębacz K Ann Bot 21-Sep-2011
PMCID:PMC3241575
doi:10.1093/aob/mcr249
PMID:21937485
A Unique Resource Mutualism between the Giant Bornean Pitcher Plant, Nepenthes rajah, and Members of a Small Mammal Community Greenwood M, Clarke C, Lee CC, Gunsalam A, Clarke RH PLoS One 14-Jun-2011
PMCID:PMC3114855
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021114
PMID:21695073
Traps of carnivorous pitcher plants as a habitat: composition of the fluid, biodiversity and mutualistic activities Adlassnig W, Peroutka M, Lendl T Ann Bot 15-Dec-2010
PMCID:PMC3025736
doi:10.1093/aob/mcq238
PMID:21159782
Mutualism between tree shrews and pitcher plants: Perspectives and avenues for future research Clarke C, Moran JA, Chin L Plant Signal Behav 01-Oct-2010
PMCID:PMC3115346
doi:10.4161/psb.5.10.12807
PMID:20861680

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