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|}} ''Nepenthes mikei'' is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to Sumatra. It is characterised by its black mottled lower and upper pitchers. The species is closely related to ''N. angasanensis'' and ''N. tobaica''.〔Clarke, C.M. 2001. ''Nepenthes of Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia''. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu.〕 The specific epithet ''mikei'' honours Mike Hopkins, who co-discovered the species with the describing authors.〔 ==Botanical history== ''Nepenthes mikei'' was discovered on Mount Pangulubao in September 1989 by Bruce Salmon, Mike Hopkins, and Ricky Maulder, during a ''Nepenthes'' expedition to Sumatra.〔 On this trip, the team also found two other undescribed ''Nepenthes'' taxa on the mountain: ''N. ovata'' and a plant they named ''N. xiphioides''.〔 The latter is now considered a heterotypic synonym of ''N. gymnamphora''.〔〔McPherson, S.R. 2009. ''Pitcher Plants of the Old World''. 2 volumes. Redfern Natural History Productions, Poole.〕〔Schlauer, J. N.d. (''Nepenthes gymnamphora'' ). Carnivorous Plant Database.〕 An early colour photograph of ''N. mikei'' was published by Mike Hopkins, Ricky Maulder, and Bruce Salmon, in a 1990 issue of the ''Carnivorous Plant Newsletter'',〔 where the plant was identified simply as ''Nepenthes'' sp. 'New Species'.〔〔〔 The authors described it as follows:〔 We saw another ''Nepenthes'' that is different than the others we saw in the higher highland areas. It has small pitchers slightly similar to ''N. tentaculata'', ''N. tobaica'' and ''N. gracilis'' but tougher and thicker. The pitchers are always nicely colored with blackish lines and markings similar to ''N. fusca''. There was very little variation with this species as all mature plants had ample rosettes on the ground and also at intervals up the stem. The stems were slimbing up to about 7 meters and had upper pitchers similar in color and shape to the lower pitchers but with the usual differences. The male inflorescences were about 20 centimeters, peduncle inclusive. Prior to its description, ''N. mikei'' was known as ''N. minutissima'' among pitcher plant growers.〔〔Schlauer, J. 1995. (Re: ''N.xiphioides'' + ''N.mikei'' ). Carnivorous Plant Mailing List, September 26, 1995.〕 This name is a ''nomen nudum'' (naked name), as it was never formally published.〔 ''Nepenthes mikei'' was formally described by Bruce Salmon and Ricky Maulder in a 1995 issue of the ''Carnivorous Plant Newsletter''.〔 The herbarium specimen ''B.Salmon & R.Maulder 221719'' is the designated holotype, and is deposited at the Auckland Institute and Museum (AK) in Auckland, New Zealand.〔〔Schlauer, J. N.d. (''Nepenthes mikei'' ). Carnivorous Plant Database.〕 It was prepared on February 17, 1995, from a plant cultivated in New Zealand,〔 and consists of a vine bearing a female inflorescence, a lower pitcher, and a rosette.〔 The specimen was originally collected in 1989〔 from a "very steep ridge in wet mossy forest" near the summit of Mount Pangulubao, at an altitude of 2000 m.〔 The authors described the plant as growing "in peaty humus or moss at the base of 5–6 m tall trees".〔 Salmon and Maulder also pressed a second specimen of ''N. mikei'' from material collected at the same elevation on Pangulubao.〔 Additional herbarium specimens of ''N. mikei'' are known and these show slight morphological variability. In 1997, Matthew Jebb and Martin Cheek published their monograph "A skeletal revision of ''Nepenthes'' (Nepenthaceae)",〔 in which they provided an emended description of ''N. mikei'' that encompassed specimens of the closely related, and at the time undescribed, ''N. angasanensis'' from Mount Leuser, Goh Lembuh, and the Kappi region.〔 Salmon and Maulder did not support this interpretation and reinstated their original description of ''N. mikei'' when they described ''N. angasanensis'' in 1999.〔Salmon, B.R. & R.G. Maulder 1999. (Notes on ''Nepenthes'' from Northern Sumatra ). ''Carnivorous Plant Newsletter'' 28(1): 14–18.〕 Jebb and Cheek retained ''N. angasanensis'' as a synonym of ''N. mikei'' in their 2001 monograph, "Nepenthaceae", writing: "We suspect that it () may prove not distinct from ''N. mikei'' and here treat it as a synonym."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nepenthes mikei」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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