Botanical History
In their 1997 monograph "A skeletal revision of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae)", Matthew Jebb and Martin Cheek tentatively referred specimens collected from Bukit Bakar, near Macang, Kelantan, to N. sanguinea. These were Stone & Chin 15238, deposited at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia near Kuala Lumpur, and Shah & Shukor 3168, also held at the university as well as the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia in Kepong. They noted that the plants exhibited some unusual morphological features, such as larger leaves and decurrent, almost petiolate leaf bases, suggesting that they might represent an as-yet undescribed taxon.
Field studies confirmed that the taxon represented a separate species. It was described as N. benstonei in 1999 by Charles Clarke.
The holotype of N. benstonei, Clarke s.n., was collected by Charles Clarke on July 24, 1998, on Bukit Bakar in Kelantan at an altitude of between 450 and 550 m. It is deposited at the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia in Kepong. Isotypes are held at the Bogor Botanical Gardens, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the National Herbarium of the Netherlands in Leiden, the Forest Department in Sandakan, and the Singapore Botanic Gardens.
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