Shigeo Kurata
"Nepenthes × kinabaluensis" is the natural hybrid between "N. rajah" and "N. villosa". It was first collected near Kambarangoh on Mount Kinabalu by Lilian Gibbs in 1910 and later mentioned by John Muirhead Macfarlane as ""Nepenthes" sp." in 1914. Although Macfarlane did not formally name the plant, he noted that "[a]ll available morphological details suggest that this is a hybrid between "N. villosa" and "N. rajah"". It was finally described in 1976 by Shigeo Kurata as "N. × kinabaluensis". The name was published in "Nepenthes of Mount Kinabalu", but it is a "nomen nudum", as it had an inadequate description and lacked information on the type specimen. The name was subsequently republished by Kurata in 1984 and by J. H. Adam and C. C. Wilcock in 1998.