Underground carnivore: the first species of pitcher plant to dine on subterranean prey
A group of researchers revealed a remarkable new species of carnivorous plant was discovered in a remote part of Borneo. Nepenthes pudica is the first pitcher plant known to produce functional underground traps, and the first for which capture of subterranean prey has been observed. While the traps themselves are often a rich maroon colour, they are produced on shoots that are entirely white, owing to their lack of chlorophyll.
Find out more in this study, published in the open-access journal PhytoKeys:
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