Shigeo Kurata
As in the case of "N. eymae" and "N. hamata", two formal descriptions of this species were published almost concurrently. The first, by Shigeo Kurata under the name "N. rubromaculata", was published on February 6, 1984, in the "Journal of Insectivorous Plant Society". The second, by John R. Turnbull and Anne T. Middleton as "N. glabratus", was published four days later on February 10, in "Reinwardtia". Although Kurata's article was printed first, the name he used is a later homonym of a horticultural hybrid published in 1891 ("N. × rubromaculata") and is thus a "nomen illegitimum" (illegitimate name). "Nepenthes glabrata" (emended with a feminine suffix) is therefore the correct name for this species.