Plants forming dense clumps; rhizomes 1-2 cm diam. Pitchers persistent, appearing well before flowers and continuing in 1 form throughout the summer, erect, green or suffused with red, with prominent, circular, white areolae distally opposite the orifice, usually with flush of reddish pigment in tissue surrounding white, 12-45 (-100) cm, thick, firm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely and unevenly short-pubescent externally, wings 1-3 cm wide; orifice strongly triangular-ovate, 1-3 cm diam., rim red, strongly revolute, without indentation distal to wing; hood strongly convex, arching-recurved adaxially, closely covering orifice, green, flushed bronze-red, or streaked with bronze-red, without white areolae, broadly ovate, not undulate, 1.2-6 cm, ± as long as wide, base continuous with tube, not forming neck, apiculum 1 mm, adaxial surface glabrate or with hairs to 0.5 mm. Phyllodia absent. Scapes 12-55 cm, shorter than longest pitchers; bracts 0.5-1.2 cm, (sometimes alternate within 1 cm of sepals and not appressed to sepals). Flowers odorless or faintly fragrant; sepals yellowish green, 1.5-3.5 × 1.5-3.5 cm; petals yellow, distal portion narrowly obovate, 3-5 × 1-3 cm, margins entire; style disc pale yellow, 2.5-4.5 cm diam. Capsules 0.8-1.8 cm diam. Seeds 1.1-1.3 mm. 2n = 26.
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