Plants forming sparse or dense clumps; rhizomes 0.5-1.5 cm diam. Pitchers marcescent, appearing with flowers, decumbent or erect, mono-morphic or trimorphic (rarely dimorphic), dull green or yellow-green, often becoming suffused with bronze to red, major veins of distal pitcher tube maroon to red-purple on internal surface, indistinctly colored on external surface, without white areolae, 8-72 cm, soft, external surface densely fine-pubescent, wings 0.3-1.5 cm wide; orifice oval, 0.7-6.7 cm diam.; rim yellow-green, rarely red, loosely revolute, with prominent everted indentation immediately distal to wing forming spout over wing; hood recurved adaxially, held well above and covering orifice, dull green to yellow-green, suffused with bronze to red, veins of abaxial surface indistinctly colored, veins of adaxial surface, if colored red, colored on main veins only, colored portion only sometimes extending distal to proximal 1/2 of hood and neck, without white areolae, ovate, undulate, 0.8-9 × 0.8-8.8 cm, longer than wide, base cordate, neck 0.5-1.5 cm, apiculum 1-3 mm, adaxial surface glabrate or with hairs to 0.5 mm. Phyllodia usually absent, sometimes erect or decumbent, oblanceolate, 15-20 × 1-2 cm. Scapes 1-2, 14-57 cm, ± equaling pitchers; bracts 0.4-1 cm. Flowers moderately fragrant; sepals maroon-green, 2-3 × 1-2 cm, (margins strongly reflexed abaxially after anthesis); petals maroon, distal portions obovate, 2.5-4 × 1.2-2.8 cm, margins erose; style disc green, 2.5-4 cm diam. Capsules 0.6-1.2 cm diam. Seeds 1.2-1.5 mm.
Can be grown by divisions or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
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