Plants forming dense clumps or mats; rhizomes 0.3-1 cm diam. Pitchers persistent, appearing before flowers, produced in 1 form throughout the summer, sprawling, decumbent, or, some-times, ascending, red-purple reticulate, distal 1/2 with white areolae, 8-30(-40) cm, firm, surfaces glabrous, wings 1-4 cm wide; orifice round (formed by fusion of hood and orifice-rim margins, opening laterally beneath hood), 0.5-1 cm diam., rim green, (turned inwards, forming 1-way trap entrance), not flared or revolute, without indentation distal to wing; hood recurved adaxially and expanded, forming subglobose head surrounding orifice, dominated by white areolae bordered by green to strongly red-purple tissue and reticulate veins, not undulate, 2-4 × 2-4(-5) cm, ± as long as wide, base of hood and neck indistinct, apiculum absent or 1 mm, adaxial surface with hairs to 2 mm (with dense retrorse hairs in distal portion of pitcher tube to 4 mm). Phyllodia absent. Scapes 15-35 cm, mostly longer than pitchers; bracts 0.6-0.8 cm. Flowers slightly fragrant; sepals maroon, 1.5-2.5 × 1-2 cm; petals maroon-red, distal portion obovate, 2-4.5 × 1-2.5 cm, margins entire; style disc yellow-green with reddish margins, 2-3 cm diam. Capsules 1 cm diam. Seeds 1.5-2 mm. 2n = 26.
Can be grown by divisions. Seeds needs stratification.
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