Nepenthes distillatoria

Nepenthes distillatoria
An upper pitcher of Nepenthes distillatoria from Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Nepenthaceae
Genus: Nepenthes
Species:
N. distillatoria
Binomial name
Nepenthes distillatoria
L. (1753)
Distribution of N. distillatoria.
Synonyms
  • Bandura zeylanica
    Burm. ex Brongn. (1824) nom.illeg.
  • Nepenthes chapmanii
    N.P.Balakr. (1970)
  • Nepenthes destillatoria
    Beck (1895);
    Danser (1928) sphalm.typogr.
  • Nepenthes hirsuta var. glabrescens
    W.G.Sm. (1882)
  • Nepenthes hirsuta var. glabrescens rubra
    auct. non Hort. ex Rafarin: Nichols. (1892)
  • Nepenthes indica
    Poir. (1797) nom.illeg.
  • Nepenthes rubra
    auct. non Hort.Van Houtte ex Rafarin: Nichols. (1886)
  • Nepenthes smithii
    Beck (1895) nom.illeg.
  • Nepenthes speciosa
    Hort. ex Beck (1895) nom.illeg.
  • Nepenthes trichocarpa
    auct. non Miq.: Hort. ex Hort.Bednar in sched. (1993)
  • Nepenthes zeylanica
    (Burm. ex Brongn.) Raf. (1836)
  • Nepenthes zeylanica var. rubra
    (auct. non Hort. ex Rafarin: Nichols.) Veitch ex Wilson (1877)
  • Nepenthes zeylanicus
    V.J.Chapm. (1947)
  • "Badura. Planta Zeylanica in foliorum extremo folliculum peniformem expansum habens."
    Herm. (1726)
  • "Bandura. Planta Zeylanica, cujus foliorum extremus folliculus peniformis expendet."
    Herm. (1726)
  • "Bandura cingalensium"
    Ray (1686)
  • "Bandura Zeylanica"
    Burm. (1737)
  • "Bandura zingalensium"
    Breyne (1680)
  • "Miranda herba"
    Bartholinus (1677)
  • "Nepenthes Zeylanicum flore minore"
    Breyne (1689)
  • "Planta mirabilis destillatoria"
    H.N.Grimm (1683)
  • "Utricaria vegetabilis Zeylanensium, Bandura Cingalibus dicta"
    Pluk. (1696)

Nepenthes distillatoria (/nɪˈpɛnθz dɪˌstɪləˈtɔːriə/; Neo-Latin, from Latin: destillo "to distill", -oria, adjectival ending; "something from which a liquid is distilled", i.e., pitcher) is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Sri Lanka. It was the second Nepenthes species to be described in print and the first to be formally named under the Linnaean system of taxonomy. It is therefore the type species of the genus.