page_title: Nepenthes ampullaria
section_title: Infraspecific taxa
hierarchical_section_title: Nepenthes ampullaria / Infraspecific taxa
caption_attribution_description: Nepenthes ampullaria
context_page_description: Nepenthes ampullaria is a very distinctive and widespread species of tropical pitcher plant, present in Borneo, the Maluku Islands, New Guinea, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, and Thailand.
  Nepenthes ampullaria, unlike other members of its genus, has evolved away from carnivory and the plants are partly detritivores, collecting and digesting falling leaf litter in their pitchers.
  In the 1996 book Pitcher-Plants of Borneo, N. ampullaria is given the vernacular name flask-shaped pitcher-plant. This name, along with all others, was dropped from the much-expanded second edition, published in 2008.
context_section_description: The most recently described variety, N. ampullaria var. racemosa, occurs in Sarawak and has a racemose inflorescence. B. H. Danser considered the other varieties to be unimportant. A complete list of published varietal names includes:
  N. ampullacea var. picta Hort.Parker ex Rafarin (1869)
  N. ampullacea var. vittata Hort.Van Houtte ex Rafarin (1869)
  N. ampullaria var. geelvinkiana Becc. (1886)
  N. ampullaria var. guttata D.Moore (1872)
  N. ampullaria var. longicarpa Becc. (1886)
  N. ampullaria var. microsepala Macfarl. (1911)
  N. ampullaria var. papuana Becc. in sched. nom.nud.
  N. ampullaria var. racemosa J.H.Adam & Wilcock (1990)
  N. ampullaria var. viridis Hort. ex Teijsm. (1859) nom.nud.
  N. ampullaria var. vittata-major Mast. (1872)
caption: A red form of N. ampullaria
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