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Sri Lankan pitcher plant
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IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Sri Lankan pitcher plant

Nepenthes distillatoria

Nepenthes distillatoria (/nɪˈpɛnθiːz dɪˌstɪləˈtɔːri.ə/; from New Latin from Latin: destillo = to distill, -oria = adjectival ending; something from which a liquid is distilled, i.e., pitcher) is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Sri Lanka. It was the second Nepenthes species to be described in print and the first to be formally named under the Linnaean system of taxonomy. It is therefore the type species of the genus.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 441210.