Nepenthes sericea Golos, Wistuba, G.Lim, Mey, S.McPherson & A.S.Rob.
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Summary
Nepenthes sericea is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to the north-central Titiwangsa Range in Peninsular Malaysia and is particularly known from Cameron Highlands. Nepenthes sericea was distinguished from Nepenthes macfarlanei by its pitchers having a dense covering of filamentous lid hairs that are 2 mm long or shorter, whereas the latter has pitchers with numerous thickened lid hairs that are 5–12 mm long. Also, the upper pitchers of N. sericea can either be entirely infundibular or funnel-shaped with a slight narrowing just below the peristome, or some plants may have a mid-point hip in their upper pitcher with the rest of the pitcher turning cylindrical to sub-infundibular in shape above the hip. In contrast, the upper pitchers of N. macfarlanei are generally wholly infundibular and may or may not have a hip present just below the peristome.
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About the genus · Nepenthes
Nepenthes is a genus of carnivorous plants, also known as tropical pitcher plants, or monkey cups, in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus includes about 170 species, and numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids. They are mostly liana-forming plants of the Old World tropics, ranging from South China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines; westward to Madagascar and the Seychelles (one); southward to Australia (four) and New Caledonia (one); and northward to India (one) and Sri Lanka (one). More on Wikipedia ›
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Other Nepenthes 207 in the reference
Nepenthes abalata Nepenthaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated Nepenthes abgracilis Nepenthaceae 
Nepenthes adnata Nepenthaceae Photo: CC BY, ma_suska Nepenthes adrianii Nepenthaceae Nepenthes aenigma Nepenthaceae 
Nepenthes alata Nepenthaceae Photo: CC BY, Forest Botial-Jarvis
Nepenthes alba Nepenthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Stewart McPherson
Nepenthes albomarginata Nepenthaceae Photo: CC BY, Victor Heng Nepenthes alfredoi Nepenthaceae Nepenthes alzapan Nepenthaceae 
Nepenthes ampullaria Flask-shaped pitcher plant Photo: CC BY, Mochamad Firmansyah Agustio
Nepenthes andamana Nepenthaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Marcello Catalano all 208 ›Names & registers
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Nepenthes sericea Golos, Wistuba, G.Lim, Mey, S.McPherson & A.S.Rob. (plant_name_id 3306928), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from themwikidata nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no item carries Kew's IPNI identifier 77325279-1, POWO 77325279-1wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22inat.taxon not askedinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.