Nepenthes rowaniae
A lowland tropical pitcher plant endemic to the northern Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, long treated as part of N. mirabilis and separated as its own species in 2005. It grows at near sea level in a hot monsoonal climate with a long dry season, and needs warm, bright, humid conditions year-round in cultivation. Published habitat detail specific to this species is thin, so much of this profile rests on the recorded range and lowland Nepenthes practice.
Where it grows wild
Wild records cluster around the Jardine River and other wet lowland sites of the northern Cape York Peninsula. Plants grow terrestrially in permanently wet ground, scrambling into surrounding vegetation, in the kind of open to lightly shaded swampy heath and stream margins typical of lowland Australian Nepenthes. Species-specific habitat descriptions were not available in the sources opened, so this is a general picture.
Strictly lowland: the 15 records with an elevation span 8–37 m (median 25 m).
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