Heliamphora chimantensis

Taxobox
name = "Heliamphora chimantensis"


regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Ericales
familia = Sarraceniaceae
genus = "Heliamphora"
species = "H. chimantensis"
binomial = "Heliamphora chimantensis"
binomial_authority = Wistuba, Carow & Harbarth (2002)

"Heliamphora chimantensis" (after Chimanta Tepui) is a species of Marsh Pitcher Plant endemic to Chimanta Tepui in Venezuela. Interestingly, it is more closely related to the southern growing "H. tatei" and "H. neblinae" than any of the other species found in the Gran Sabana. All other species known from this region have between 10 and 15 anthers, while "H. tatei", "H. neblinae" and "H. chimantensis" have around 20. However, the anthers of "H. tatei" and the closely related "H. neblinae" (once thought to be a variety of the former) are 7-9 mm long, while those of "H. chimantensis" only reach 5 mm in length.

References

* McPherson, S. 2007. "Pitcher Plants of the Americas". The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, Blacksburg, Virginia.
* Wistuba, A., T. Carow & P. Harbarth 2002. [http://www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/Species/v31n3p78_82.html "Heliamphora chimantensis", a New Species of "Heliamphora" (Sarraceniaceae) from the ‘Macizo de Chimanta’ in the South of Venezuela] . "Carnivorous Plant Newsletter" 31(3): 78–82.