Heliamphora glabra
A smooth-pitchered highland sun pitcher from the tepuis and sandstone uplands where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana meet, at roughly 1200–2750 m. It was long treated as a hairless form of H. heterodoxa and was raised to species rank in 2006. In cultivation it is one of the more vigorous, forgiving highland Heliamphora, but it still wants strong light, cool nights and constantly wet, humid conditions.
Where it grows wild
A terrestrial, clump-forming pitcher plant of open, waterlogged peat bogs, seepages and shrubby wet savanna on sandstone tepui slopes and summits. The sites are open to the sky but frequently in cloud and mist, with heavy rain for most of the year and nutrient-poor, acidic, constantly flushed ground.
Wikipedia's genus article gives about 1200–2750 m, making it a highland species with a fairly broad altitudinal band. GBIF has no usable wild records to check this against.
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