Nepenthes Klossii

Nepenthes klossii is a tropical pitcher plant endemic to New Guinea.

Botanical history

Nepenthes klossii was discovered in southwestern New Guinea during the Wollaston Expedition of 1912–1913. The type specimen of the species, Kloss s.n., was collected by Cecil Boden Kloss near an expedition campsite (camp VIb) on 26 January 1913, at an elevation of between 930 and 1,170 m above sea level. It is deposited at the herbarium of the Singapore Botanic Gardens. The specimen is of unknown sex as it lacks floral material.

In August 1916, N. klossii was formally described by Henry Nicholas Ridley in a report on the Wollaston Expedition published in The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. The specific epithet klossii honours Cecil Boden Kloss, who first collected it three years earlier. Ridley wrote of this species: