Related Species
An upper pitcher of N. naga bearing a highly developed filiform appendage and frilled lid, which distinguish this species from its closest relatives in the genusIn their description of N. naga, the authors compared it to the Sumatran endemics N. ovata and N. spathulata, contending that it can be distinguished from these species on the basis of its dichotomous lid appendage and frilled lid. Nepenthes naga is nonetheless very similar to these species and to N. bongso, and may prove to be an aberrant form of one of them. Populations of N. bongso exhibiting a similarly branching lid appendage have been discovered and "ost authorities believe that falls within the range of variation of N. bongso".
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