of
N. kurata from Cheek and Jebb's
type description. This taxon was subsequently
synonymised with
N. ramos.
Nepenthes kurata was described in 2013 as a species known only from
Mount Malindang in
Misamis Occidental Province,
Mindanao, where it was recorded at 1,400 m altitude. This would make it one of the most westerly known
Nepenthes species in Mindanao. (In 1995
N. mirabilis was found near
Polanco, further to the west.) This taxon was previously described as a
variety of
N. alata—
N. alata var.
ecristata—in
John Muirhead Macfarlane's 1908 monograph, "
Nepenthaceae". The specific epithet
kurata honours botanist
Shigeo Kurata, best known for his 1976 book,
Nepenthes of Mount Kinabalu.
Nepenthes kurata was formally
synonymised with
N. ramos in 2016. ==References==