Sabah chief conservator of ­forests Datuk Frederick Kugan said pitcher plants or monkey cups are a genus of carnivorous plants with over 160 species worldwide. Twenty-five of the species are ...

This plant, named Nepenthes pongoides, belongs to the largest known pitcher plants and may be at risk ... in the mountainous region of the state of Sabah, in the northeastern part of Borneo.

Scientists have discovered a new species of pitcher plant whose leaves are covered with hairs resembling orangutan fur. This unique plant is likely at risk of extinction. The Australian Journal of ...

Found only near the summit of Mount Victoria on the island of Palawan in the Philippines, Attenborough's pitcher plant (Nepenthes attenboroughii) is critically endangered. One of the largest of all ...