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Headline: New Pitcher Plant species that went unnoticed
Date Posted: 12/2/2006
World authority on the ecology of pitcher plants Dr Charles Clarke has discovered a new species in Sabah.
It has been named Nepenthes chaniana (Nepenthaceae) after Sabahan Datuk CL Chan, who has become the first Malaysian to gets a nepenthes species named after him.
The species was found on Gunung Alab–the highest peak on the Crocker Range Park, which also means a protected habitat.
The discovery was published in the Sabah Parks Nature Journal.
This gives Sabah another added credential as one the 12 mega-biodiversity hot spots in the world.
After taxonomic efforts with Ch’en Lee and Stewart McPherson confirmed it was new, the James Cook University research scientist decided to name it after Chan, as a tribute to Chan’s enormous publishing efforts on the biodiversity of Borneo and elsewhere.
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