Nepenthes thorelii
A small, rarely seen pitcher plant of seasonally dry savannah grassland in southern Vietnam. It survives the dry season and bushfires as a dormant perennial rootstock and sends up new shoots each wet season. Plants sold under this name are usually something else, and the true species is probably not in cultivation.
Where it grows wild
Seasonally dry savannah grassland, fully exposed to sun. Plants are small erect shrubs up to about 40 cm tall. During the dry season the above-ground growth dies back or is burnt by bushfires while the thick rootstock survives underground. It was feared extinct until rediscovered in 2011 in a Vietnamese military zone; one known population holds fewer than 100 plants.
Literature gives sea level to about 200 m. Two of the three measured sites are near 1350–1400 m on the Da Lat plateau, which does not match the published range.
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