The discovery of the newest pitcher plant species endemic to a Davao de Oro mountain will boost Davao region’s campaign to declare Mt. Candalaga as one of Mindanao’s protected sites, environment officials said. | via Germelina Lacorte/PDI
Nepenthes candalaga, Davao de Oro’s newest pitcher plant species found thriving near the summit of Mt.
Candalaga, has been named after the mountain in Maragusan town revered by the Mansaka indigenous peoples and which topNoel Lagunday, lead author of the July 2022 article published in Phytotaxa, a peer-reviewed international journal of botanical taxonomy, referred to Nepenthes candalaga as the 38th Nepenthes species found in Mindanao and has been tagged as critically endangered according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature criteria.
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