Heliamphora folliculata

Heliamphora folliculata

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Sarraceniaceae
Genus:	Heliamphora
Species:	H. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its The Ericales are a large and diverse order of Dicotyledons including for example Tea, Persimmon, Blueberry, Brazil nut, and Sarraceniaceae is a family of Pitcher plants (along with Nepenthaceae) belonging to order Ericales (previously Nepenthales) The genus Heliamphora (hiːliːæmfɔːɹə/ or /hɛliːæmfɔːɹə from Greek: helos = Marsh, amphoreus = Amphora folliculata

Binomial name

Heliamphora folliculata
Wistuba, Harbarth & Carow (2001)

Heliamphora folliculata (Latin: folliculatus = having follicles) is a species of Marsh Pitcher Plant endemic to the Aparaman group of tepuis in Venezuela. Dr Andreas Wistuba (born March 4, 1967) is a German Taxonomist and Botanist specialising in the Carnivorous plant Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. The genus Heliamphora (hiːliːæmfɔːɹə/ or /hɛliːæmfɔːɹə from Greek: helos = Marsh, amphoreus = Amphora Endemism is the Ecological state of being unique to a place Endemic species are not naturally found elsewhere A Tepui (or Tepuy) (ˈtɛpˌwi is a table-top mountain ( Mesa) found only in the Guayana highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela Venezuela (ˌvɛnəˈzweɪlə) officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is a country on the It grows on all four mountains: Aparaman Tepui, Murosipan Tepui, Tereke Tepui and Kamakeiwaran Tepui.

References

McPherson, S. 2007. Pitcher Plants of the Americas. The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, Blacksburg, Virginia.
Wistuba, A. , P. Harbarth & T. Carow 2001. Heliamphora folliculata, a new species of Heliamphora (Sarraceniaceae) from the ‘Los Testigos’ Table Mountains in the South of Venezuela. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 30(4): 120–125. The Carnivorous Plant Newsletter ( CPN) is the official publication of the International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS the largest such organization

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