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"Nepenthes edwardsiana" was formally described in 1859 by Joseph Dalton Hooker. Hooker named the species after George Edwardes, Governor of the Crown Colony of Labuan, at the request of his friend Hugh Low. Hooker's original description and illustration were reproduced in Spenser St. John's "Life in the Forests of the Far East", published in 1862. St. John wrote the following account of "N. edwardsiana" on Mount Kinabalu: