Nepenthes rafflesianaJack ex Hook.

Raffles' pitcher plant

WFO wfo-0000381448 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Nepenthes rafflesiana, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. a Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-18 / obs. 183378757
Nepenthes rafflesiana, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. b Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176895768
Nepenthes rafflesiana, photographed by Kai Squires
fig. c Kai Squires, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60961120
Nepenthes rafflesiana, photographed by eyrezer
fig. d eyrezer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 78436233
Nepenthes rafflesiana, photographed by Gianmaria Bonari
fig. e Gianmaria Bonari, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69172861
Nepenthes rafflesiana, photographed by Gianmaria Bonari
fig. f Gianmaria Bonari, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69172570
Nepenthes rafflesiana, photographed by Roland Kays
fig. g Roland Kays, CC0 1.0 / obs. 6148818
Nepenthes rafflesiana, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. h Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173130769

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Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Nepenthes hookeriana H.Low ex Becc.
  • Nepenthes rafflesiana var. alata J.H.Adam & Wilcock
  • Nepenthes rafflesiana var. ambigua Beck
  • Nepenthes rafflesiana var. glaberrima Hook.f.
  • Nepenthes rafflesiana var. insignis Mast.
  • Nepenthes rafflesiana var. minor Becc.
  • Nepenthes rafflesiana var. nigro-purpurea Mast.
  • Nepenthes rafflesiana var. nivea Hook.f.
  • Nepenthes rafflesiana var. typica Beck
  • Nepenthes raflesea Hort.
  • Nepenthes sanderiana Burb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.