Plants forming dense clumps; rhizomes 0.5-1.5 cm diam. Pitchers persistent, appearing with flowers, producing similar pitchers through summer, erect, (long-petiolate, basal 1/4-1/3 of tube solid, without open cavity, tapering distally to form hollow tube and distinctly bulging abaxially mostly in distal 1/4 of tube), green, usually reddish or purple-veined adaxially, rarely with an overall deep maroon-purple suffusion, without white areolae, 21-73 cm, firm, waxy, external surface glabrous, wings 0.2-1(-1.5) cm wide; orifice oval, 1-4 cm diam., rim maroon, tightly revolute, usually with slight to distinct indentation distal to wing often forming conspicuous spout extending over wing; hood recurved adaxially, held well beyond and covering orifice, red-purple, veins on adaxial and abaxial surfaces distinctive, red-purple throughout, without white areolae, broadly ovate, undulate, 2.4-6.5 × 2.4-5.4 cm, longer than wide, base cordate, neck not constricted, 0.5-1 cm, apiculum 1-4 mm, adaxial surface glabrate or with hairs to 0.5 mm. Phyllodia absent. Scapes 1-2, 32-70 cm, rarely exceeding tallest pitchers; bracts 1-2 cm. Flowers moderately fragrant; sepals maroon, 2.5-3.5 × 1.5-2 cm; petals maroon, distal portion 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. 2n = 26.
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