Nepenthes rajah
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Nepenthes rajah is a carnivorous pitcher plant species of the family Nepenthaceae. It is endemic to Mount Kinabalu and neighbouring Mount Tambuyukon in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Nepenthes rajah grows e
Nep rajah 2 flower
Mature plants with both lower and upper pitchers
The peltate leaf attachment
A terrestrial pitcher
Nepenthes infauna
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Nepenthes infauna are the organisms that inhabit the pitchers of Nepenthes plants. These include fly and midge larvae, spiders, mites, ants, and a species of crab, Geosesarma malayanum. The most commo
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…ants, are its staple prey. The pitchers are host to many other organisms, some so specialised that they cannot survive anywhere else, and are called nepenthebionts. N. rajah has two such mosquito taxa named after it: Culex rajah and Toxorhynchites rajah. The species is able to hybridise in the wild with all other…
Infaunal mosquito larvae in the pitcher fluid of Nepenthes rajah
Accumulation of prey, such as in this Nepenthes rafflesiana pitcher, may attract nepenthexenes.
Recently drowned insects, such as this large beetle caught by Nepenthes ovata, constitute basal species in the pitcher food web and are consumed by the infauna.
Moth caught by an upper pitcher of Nepenthes neoguineensis