Nepenthes surigaoensis Elmer
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Nepenthes surigaoensis is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to the Philippine island of Mindanao, where it grows at elevations of at least 800–1,200 m above sea level.
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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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Cultivation
Grouped as a carnivorous plant, listed under the genus Nepenthes in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “climbing shrub or liana”.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Group. Listed under the genus Nepenthes in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “climbing shrub or liana”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: Thomas Gronemeyer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer (1870–1942), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Thomas Gronemeyer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Related
Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.
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
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