Mount Kemul
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Mount Kemul is a mountain in East Kalimantan
. It is the type locality of the pitcher plant
species Nepenthes fusca
and Nepenthes mollis
.
East Kalimantan
East Kalimantan is the second largest Indonesian province, located on the Kalimantan region on the east of Borneo island. The resource-rich province has two major cities, Samarinda and Balikpapan...
. It is the type locality of the pitcher plant
Pitcher plant
Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid known as a pitfall trap. It has been widely assumed that the various sorts of pitfall trap evolved from rolled leaves, with selection pressure favouring more deeply cupped leaves over...
species Nepenthes fusca
Nepenthes fusca
Nepenthes fusca , or the Dusky Pitcher-Plant, is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Borneo. It is found throughout a wide altitudinal range and is almost always epiphytic in nature, primarily growing in mossy forest....
and Nepenthes mollis
Nepenthes mollis
Nepenthes mollis , or the Velvet Pitcher-Plant, is a tropical pitcher plant species native to Kalimantan, Borneo. It is known only from a single dried herbarium specimen and is the sole recognised species in the genus Nepenthes of which the pitchers are unknown.The habitat of N. mollis is listed as...
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