Heliamphora nutans

Heliamphora nutans is a marsh pitcher plant native to the border region where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana meet, growing on several tepuis including Roraima, Kukenan, Yuruani, Maringma and Wei Assipu. Its specific name is Latin for nodding. It was the first Heliamphora to be described and remains the best known species, and it is the type species of its genus. The brothers Robert and Richard Schomburgk found it on Mount Roraima in 1839 without collecting samples, George Bentham described it formally in 1840, and David Burke collected specimens in British Guiana in 1881 and introduced the plant to England. Like many tropical pitcher plants of the genus Nepenthes, it traps prey by aquaplaning: animals slip on downward-pointing hairs, which are far more slippery when wet, and fall into the pitcher.