Shigeo Kurata
"Nepenthes talangensis" has been confused with "N. bongso" on a number of occasions. In his seminal 1928 monograph, "The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies", B. H. Danser treated specimens of "N. bongso", "N. ovata", and "N. talangensis" all under "N. bongso". Shigeo Kurata did the same in an article published in a 1973 issue of "The Gardens' Bulletin Singapore". Two early colour photographs of "N. talangensis" were published by Mike Hopkins, Ricky Maulder, and Bruce Salmon, in a 1990 issue of the "Carnivorous Plant Newsletter", where the species was again confused with, and identified as, "N. bongso".