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<p><strong><em>Nepenthes erucoides </em></strong><strong>(Nepenthaceae), an ultramaficolous micro-endemic from Dinagat Islands Province, northern Mindanao, Philippines</strong></p>

2019; Q15088586; Volume: 423; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11646/phytotaxa.423.1.3

1179-3163

ALASTAIR S. ROBINSON, Sarah Grace S. Zamudio, ROLLY BALAGON CABALLERO,

Plant Parasitism and Resistance

A new species of Nepenthes—N. erucoides—is described and illustrated from a single ultramafic peak in the Dinagat Islands Province of northeastern Mindanao. It is a distinctive component of a relatively low-elevation, highly biodiverse montane elfin forest that has evolved in association with a particularly thin and extremely hostile substrate. Plant habit, and leaf, inflorescence, indumentum and peristome-column morphology appear superficially similar to those of the ultramaficolous montane species of Palawan, implicating an environmental basis for a syndrome of shared characteristics.