Carnivorous plants of the Cape York Floodplains
The northernmost swamps of the Cape York Peninsula are some of the most biodiverse carnivorous plant habitats in the world. Over twenty species of carnivorous plants across three genera are…
Australian pitcher plants farm their own food
On the floodplain of the Jardine River, an interesting symbiotic relationship occurs between a Nepenthes pitcher plant and black ants. In this sandy but waterlogged swamp, many Nepenthes rowaniae x…
Natural Hybrids in Australian Nepenthes
All four species of Australian pitcher plants are early in the process of evolutionary divergence. Hybrids and introgressed taxa are very common in the floodplains of Cape York where multiple…
Nepenthes rowaniae Species Profile
Nepenthes rowaniae is one of four Australian species of pitcher plant and is endemic to the tip of Cape York, NE Australia. The species is mainly recognised by its large…