The definitive Nepenthes thorelii description

[Sockhom]

Hello,

After the rediscovery of Nepenthes thorelii in August 2011, 102 years after it was last studied by qualified botanists, I decided, with a few colleagues to publish a scientific article on this elusive endemic taxon.
With the help of Luu Hong Truong and Dang Viet Dai from the Institute of Tropical Biology of Ho-Chi-Minh City and Alastair Robinson, well known Nepenthes expert, we wrote and just published a definitive taxonomic account on this poorly known species. The paper also provides a lot of ecological data. You will be interested I'm sure to learn about all the life forms associated to N. thorelii.
I hope, after this publication, than people will have a clear understanding of the delimitations of that Vietnamese species.


Here are the references of the paper:
Mey, F. S., L. Hong Truong, V. D. Dang, A. Robinson (2012). Nepenthes thorelii Lecomte, an emended description and novel ecological data resulting from its rediscovery in Tay Ninh, Vietnam. New Nepenthes:104-131. In: S.R. McPherson. Redfern Natural History Productions Ltd. Poole. In press
The bibliography will be later added to the pdf.

carnivorousockhom.blogspot.com/2012/01/definitive-nepenthes-thorelii.html

All the best,

François.

[ICPS-bob]

Thanks François. Very interesting.

[Sockhom]

Thank you Bob

And this is the field report.
This is not a scientific paper but the tale of the rediscovery of Nepenthes thorelii.
carnivorousockhom.blogspot.com/2012/01/nepenthes-thorelii-rediscovery-account.html

These are the first lines:

"It is difficult not to be overwhelmed; whilst my friends andcolleagues fuss around a particular group of low growing plants, I am stood aside, trying hard to breathe normally, to stay calm and to regain my sense of perspective. In the vegetation around me I can see, amongst the small shrubs and trees, more of these plants. For a few moments, I wonder whether what I am seeing is real. We are in southern Vietnam, in Lò Gò-Xa Mát National Park alongside the border with Cambodia, and we have just rediscovered the long lost Nepenthes thorelii, a taxon unseen by botanists since it was described 102 years ago, in 1909 (Figure 106).This personal hunt for Nepenthes thorelii started in 2007, whenI found an undescribed Nepenthes on Phnom Bokor (Mount Bokor), in southern Cambodia. This plant would later be named Nepenthes bokorensis and it would be the first of several Indochinese species to be uncovered in this part of the world in the following years."

All the best,

François.