Nepenthes ampullaria
A lowland pitcher plant of Borneo, Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, the Moluccas and New Guinea. It grows in shaded, wet peat swamp and heath forest and forms carpets of round, lidless-looking ground pitchers that catch falling leaf litter. It is partly a detritivore rather than a hunter. It wants hot, humid, stable conditions with no night chill and much less light than most Nepenthes.
Where it grows wild
Grows in damp, shady forest, mainly peat swamp forest, kerangas heath forest and degraded swamp, usually on flat, waterlogged ground. The climbing stems reach into the trees, while rhizomes and runners produce dense rosettes of ground pitchers that carpet the forest floor and intercept leaf fall. It also occurs in secondary and more open vegetation, especially in New Guinea.
It is essentially a lowland plant. In Borneo it grows to about 1000 m, and it is reported up to 2100 m elsewhere. The three wild records with elevation are all at 60–84 m.
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