> 1) Is var anamensis and var smilesii are both of the
> same type?
> According teh describing in Exotica Plants
> catalogue, smilesii has
> rounded leaves.
> 2) Is var smilesii the same as kampotiana?
> 3) Is smilesii not a variety of mirabilis but a
> species of its own?
> 4) Back to my main question, are they lowland?
>
> Thank you for reading this confused newbie
> questions. Im sorry once
> again if i have offended anyone

Hi Yat, I don't think you offended anybody :))
I hope you checked nepenthesofthailand.com for more
informations.
Anyway, N. smilesii, anamensis and kampotiana are the
same plant that has been given different names as
every time a new scientist discovered the plant in a
different place and he thought it was a new species
and gave it a new name. It's an intermediate plant, so
it grows at 800-1200 meters (10 degrees by night and
30 by day), but in cultivation it can also be grown as
a lowland plant.
The problem is that even if N. smilesii (or kampotiana
or anamensis, the name smilesii being the most correct
one to my opinion) is a species on its own, it has
been confused and described as a form of mirabilis
many years ago. Since then some nurseries are still
selling red N. mirabilis or other particular N.
mirabilis forms with the name "var. smilesii" or "var.
anamensis" (sometimes only because their plants come
from thailand, where also N. smilesii is growing),
while their plants are infact just simply N. mirabilis
(which in the upper part of the stem produces more
roundish petioled leaves compared to the more linear
leaves at the base, without petiole).
So if you see on a catalogue N. mirabilis var.
anamensis or var. smilesii, you will probably receive
two different forms of mirabilis. While if you see N.
anamensis or kampotiana, you will probably receive N.
smilesii.
If you can check the picture of the plant they sell,
it's quite easy to see the difference, but for this I
send you again to nepenthesofthailand.com.
cheers,
Marcello

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