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Original source: Alfindra Primaldhi
Author: Alfindra Primaldhi

Nepenthes pectinata

The specific epithet gymnamphora is derived from the Greek words gymnos and amphoreus .

Nepenthes pectinata was described by B. H. Danser in his seminal 1928 monograph "The Nepenthaceae of the Netherlands Indies". Danser's description of N. pectinata was based on material that included upper pitchers of N. singalana. This was first noted in 1994 by Jan Schlauer and Joachim Nerz, who provided a lectotype for N. pectinata: Bünnemeijer 700, a specimen collected on Mount Talakmau. Danser mentioned another specimen in his monograph that he identified as the natural hybrid N. pectinata × N. More