Plants forming moderate clumps; rhizomes 1-1.5 cm diam. Pitchers marcescent, withering by mid summer, appearing with or just prior to flowers in 1 flush, erect, green to yellowish green, sometimes purple-veined or suffused with purple, without white areolae, 18-75 cm, firm, surfaces glabrous, wings 0.5-1 cm wide; orifice oval, 2-4.5 cm diam., rim green to red, flared and loosely revolute, often with slight indentation immediately distal to wing; hood recurved adaxially, held well beyond and covering orifice, yellow-green, infrequently suffused with purple, or purple reticulate-veined or purple-spotted at neck, without white areolae, broadly ovate-reniform, somewhat undulate, 2-8 × 2.5-8 cm, ± as long as wide, proximal margins weakly cordate such that opposite lobes reflex abaxially, not touching, neck (rarely red-blotched), constricted, 1-2 cm, margins revolute, apiculum 1-2 mm, adaxial surface with hairs to 0.5 mm. Phyllodia 3-5, usually more numerous than pitchers, decumbent to ascending, weakly to strongly falcate, 5-18 × 0.5-3.5 cm. Scapes 45-70 cm, shorter than pitchers; bracts (yellowish), 0.6-1.2 cm, (blunt apically). Flowers slightly ill-scented; sepals yellow, 3-5 × 2-3 cm; petals yellow, distal portion oblong-elliptic to slightly obovate, 4-5.5 × 1.4-1.7 cm, margins entire; style disc yellow-green, 5-8.5 cm diam. Capsules 1.5-1.8 cm diam. Seeds 1.8-2 mm. 2n = 26.
Can be grown by divisions or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
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