. On the summits of the spectacular Tepuis of the Guiana Highlands, South America, fifteen species of pitcher plants of the genus Heliamphora have been discovered. One of the least documented and least studied of all is Heliamphora exappendiculata which occurs at the heart of the Guiana Highlands on the Chimanta Massif – a massive […]
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Heliamphora exappendiculata – A Newly Rediscovered Pitcher Plant from Venezuela
2012-08-07
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. The beginning of the twentieth century represents an age of discovery and exploration – a time when our picture of the Earth remained incomplete and still filled with the unknown. The Guiana Highlands of Venezuela, northern Brazil and Guyana lay at the forefront of the minds of explorers – a remote land dominated by […]
Heliamphora ionasii – One of the Largest and Most Beautiful Species of the Marsh Pitcher Plants
2012-06-03
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. In 1978, Basset Maguire described two new species of marsh pitcher plants based on the findings of several expeditions to the Guiana Highlands of Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil which he and various colleagues at the New York Botanical Garden led during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
. During 1838 and 1839, the celebrated German cartographer Robert Schomburgk was dispatched by the British Government to travel to the remote interior of the colony of British Guyana (now Guyana) to map the remote borders of the province and to survey the topography and geology of the territory. During the early 19th century, the […]
. In South America, on the summits of the vast plateaus of the Guiana Highlands, there grows a strange and little known group of carnivorous plants called the Heliamphora, or Marsh Pitcher Plants. Heliamphora was first discovered in 1838 by Robert Schomburgk, a cartographer who had been hired by the British government of the colony […]
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