Nepenthes clipeata
A critically endangered pitcher plant known only from the granite cliffs of Mount Kelam in West Kalimantan, Borneo. It has round, shield-shaped (peltate) leaves, dense brown hairs, and squat pitchers up to 30 cm tall that are rounded below and funnel-shaped above. It does not climb. Almost all plants in cultivation come from a handful of clones, so tissue-cultured or seed-grown plants are the only responsible source.
Where it grows wild
A lithophyte that grows on near-vertical granite cliff faces, rooting into cracks and pockets of humus and moss. The cliffs drain instantly after rain, and the plants get strong light and moving air. Collecting, and the fires after the 1997–98 El Niño drought, reduced the wild population to very few plants.
The literature gives 600–800 m on Mount Kelam. The two measured sites are at 57 and 310 m, which are the elevations of the generalised coordinates, not the cliffs.
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