Nepenthes kampotiana

Nepenthes kampotiana is a tropical pitcher plant native to southern Cambodia, eastern Thailand, and at least southern coastal Vietnam.^[3][4] It has an altitudinal distribution of 0–600 m above sea level.^[5] The specific epithet kampotiana refers to the Cambodian city of Kampot, close to which the first specimens of this species were collected.^[3]

Nepenthes kampotiana
A lower pitcher of N. kampotiana
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Nepenthaceae
Genus:	Nepenthes
Species:	N. kampotiana
Binomial name
Nepenthes kampotiana Lecomte (1909)
Synonyms
Synonyms Nepenthes geoffrayi Lecomte (1909) Heterochresonyms Nepenthes kampotiana auct. non Lecomte: Hort. ex Hort.Bot.Berlin in sched. (1996) [=N. mirabilis][2]

This species is closely related to N. chang.^[6] Nepenthes geoffrayi is a heterotypic synonym of N. kampotiana.^[3]

In his Carnivorous Plant Database, taxonomist Jan Schlauer treats N. kampotiana as a heterotypic synonym of N. smilesii.^[2]

Natural hybrids

• N. bokorensis × N. kampotiana^[7]
• N. kampotiana × N. mirabilis^[8]