Scientists who saw photos in old reports and social networks organized an expedition to the remote Meliau Range in Sabah on Borneo and confirmed the opening of a new species of Kuvshinchiki plants. But he is already under threat of disappearance, reports Cosmos Magazine.

The new species was called Nepenthes Pongoides, it has a surprisingly large “jug” designed to catch insects. The largest sheet-bush that scientists discovered in height reached 45 centimeters and could accommodate at least two liters of liquid.

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Unlike most other types of Nepenthes, most of the new plant is covered with long, rough, reddish hairs. This makes him similar to Orangutans of the genus Pongo, so the plant decided to give the species name pongoides.

Orangutans and Nepenthes pongoides coexist in this part of the Malaysian Borneo.

“It is noteworthy that Nepenthes Pongoides has not yet been described, despite its large size and amazing apomorphia [unique evolutionary features],” scientists wrote in an article published in the journal Australian Journal of Botany.

Scientists also found that the species is already under the threat of disappearance, which is another similar feature for plants and orangutans. Unlike Orangutan, which is mainly threatened by the loss of the habitat, Nepenthes pongoides is already “almost certainly” under the threat of poaching.

Other types of Nepenthes, especially large specimens, attract great interest from the illegal trade in horticultural products.

During two field expeditions, scientists managed to find only 39 adult samples of plants. All of them were in the same region with an area of \u200b\u200babout 10 square kilometers. That is, the plant is vulnerable to random events, for example, fires that can destroy the whole view.

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