Heliamphora neblinae Maguire var. neblinae

• Region

  South America

• Country

  Venezuela

• State/Province

  Amazonas

• County/Municipio

  Río Negro Mun.

• Locality

  Cerro de la Neblina, Camp XI, 6.2 km. NNE of Pico Phelps (=Neblina)

• Elevation

  Alt. 1500 m. (4921 ft.)

• Coordinates

  0.8625, -65.9806

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

The New York Botanical Garden
VENEZUELA, Amazonas, Dpto. Rio Negro
Cerro de la Neblina Expedition
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Seen for Revision of the Genus Heliamphora Benth.
Heliamphora neblinae Maguire
det/rev./conf. Andreas Fleischmann (M), Ttf 2009
Cerro de la Neblina, Camp XI, 6.2 km. NNE of Pico
Phelps (=Neblina).
00°5r45"N, 65°58'50"W	alt. 1500 m.
Gentle slopes with some large conglomerate rock
outcrops, many terrestrial bromeliads (Brocchinia),
Heliamphora, and small trees (Ilex, Tyleria,
Ternstroemia).
MADw 44264.
Common in some places. Stems to 2 m. tall, but only
when supported by other vegetation, with definite ring
of wood around broad, very pale pink pith, the stems
simple or with a few short shoots with pitchers from
near the base (voucher for wood specimen, MADw). Ma-
ture plants with (3)4 pitchers in a tight erect group
at summit of stem, all pointed inward, the pitchers
ranging greatly in size from tiny ones on ground to
large ones on vigorous plants. Pitchers more red in
age, the hood and midrib within always deep red; in-
side of pitcher with green zone at top with progres-
sively longer and more golden hairs towards the base,
abruptly changing to smooth, purple zone, then hairs
again lower. Inflorescences erect, the flowers
odorless, appear to be open all day, the face held
vertically; petals (tepals) white, irregular in
number, from 4 to 9, often with l(or 2) definitely
double, the most regular appearing flowers seem to
have 3 broad tepals in the outer whorl and 3 narrower
ones in the inner whorl; after anthesis the tepals
folding back inwards, becoming yellow-green, then dull
and reddish and blending in with other vegetative
parts. Tepals were counted on 57 flowers chosen
iramdomly. A = Number of tepals per flower, d =
double tepal. B = Number of flowers of each kind.
A 4 3+d 5 4+d 6 5+d 3+dd 7 6+d 8 9
B 19 8 12 6 8	1 2	1
Coll.: M. Nee 31174
27 Feb. 1985
Field work supported by the Fundación para el Desarrollo de las Ciencias Fisicas, Matemáticas y
Naturales, the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society.
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