Nepenthes of Thailand 

 

N. smilesii on Phu Kradung

 

My name is Marcello Catalano. I'm not a taxonomist but just a Nepenthes grower. That's why all the personal opinions that I will express on this site, about the taxonomy of the plants involved or about anything else, don't have to be considered as scientifically approved but just as thoughts coming from a very curious mind.

 

This site is rough, wild, hard to explore and to understand, exactly like its argument...

Introduction

-How I got curious

 

-A long research

 

The Maps

-Trip 2004

 

-Trip 2006

 

-Trip 2007

 

-Conclusions so far

 

-The X-plants

 -Nong’s website

 

 

 

Nepenthes of Cambodia

Nepenthes of Laos

Nepenthes of Vietnam  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          

                                                                                                                                                                                                              

 

 

 

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Email me at: rafflesiana@yahoo.com

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30 april 2008 – the new N. bokor is in process of being published by M. Cheek, read François Mey’s report on the Cambodia map; N. kampotiana is now considered by Cheek a species on itself (personal communication Dec. 2007), the whole website has been changed in this sense, give a look to the “conclusions so far”, at the bottom of “a long research”, on the Cambodia map, on the x-plants page and the Trat page; I removed “Nepenthes of Laos” because for ages it was based on a single plant that we don’t even know where it comes from!

10 january 2008 – Nepenthes of Vietnam is online, with very interesting dry specimens and a report from Eric Schlosser about Dalat; the new N. kongkandana is in process of being published by M. Cheek, read the update at the bottom of Chanà; the type specimen of N. smilesii from Baw Saw is finally available, the proof we were looking for to use this name instead of N. anamensis; finally you can see how the plants from Trat look like, see the bottom of the Trat page.

1 may 2007 – read what happened during my trip 2007! 

12 may 2006 – all the news from my trip 2006; enjoy Nong’s website about Nepenthes of Indochina through our easy links.

3 sep 2005 – the new Nepenthes of Laos is online, with only one note, regarding the new N. sp. 4; a new forum has been created right to keep up the discussion about the Nepenthes of Indochina, join us at the WildJungle; the X-plants page is online, with all the indochinese plants that are still not well identified, including sp. 1, the first candidate for being the TRUE thorelii; a new plant has been found at Ao Pangà, check it out in the South Map, note 5, or at the bottom of the x-plants page; Nong has started the Lid Experiment, trying to classify the plants of his vast collection using their lid shape and glands’ distribution on its underside.   

26 apr 2005 – a strange plant was discovered in a lowland jungle, see the pics and a few infos in the note 16 of The South map; N. smilesii has been found in the lowlands, see one pic and a few infos in the note 5 of The South map; some more informations about the Kirirom n.p. in Cambodia, by Julien Jedrusiak, see note 2 of the Cambodia map; you can finally give a look at the short text dedicated to N. anamensis (now called N. smilesii) and N. thorelii in "A skeletal revision of Nepenthes", by M. Jebb and M. Cheek, see the part "What’s on the books" in my long research; Heiko Rischer provided some more pics of N. smilesii in habitat on Phu Kradung.

28 nov 2004 - N. "Viking" was added to the conclusions so far; a few pics by Tom Kahl were added to the Phu Kradung note, in the northeast map; a new note and 3 pics of N. mirabilis, thanks to our thai agent Duke, were added to the Center Map; the new Nepenthes of Cambodia is online, together with a few pics and notes by Julien Gedrusiak; the new Vip bookmarks will show you how this website is becoming a point of reference for the whole planet; also a few new lines and pics about N. Viking, thanks to Nong, Duke and Shigeo Kurata, at the bottom of The Trip page.

16 sep 2004 - the site is online

 

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