Heliamphora hispida
A hairy-pitchered marsh pitcher plant found only on Cerro de la Neblina, the southernmost tepui on the Brazil–Venezuela border. It grows in open, boggy summit vegetation from about 2,000 m to near the 2,994 m peak, which is higher than any other Heliamphora. It is a cool highland plant that needs strong light, constant moisture, cool nights and very humid but moving air.
Where it grows wild
It grows in open, waterlogged summit vegetation on the Neblina massif: sedge and Stegolepis bog, Brocchinia stands, rocky 'campo rupestre' and the edges of low scrub. Herbarium labels describe open campo dominated by Stegolepis neblinensis and Brocchinia vestita, and shrubs at the edge of swampy savanna near a river. Plants form clumps of pitchers rising from rhizomes in wet, peaty, nutrient-poor ground.
Specimens come from about 2,000 to 2,960 m, and plants grow near the 2,994 m summit of Pico da Neblina, the highest-growing of all Heliamphora. The summit plateaus average 2,000–2,400 m.
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