Male Nepenthes flower

[Davids]

Nepenthes aren't known for their flowers. Compared to the pitchers, the flowers are not very memorable. However, they are interesting up close!
This is a male flower of N. glabrata x aristolochioides. The first image is 1.5x with Laowa 60mm 2:1 macro, the rest are with Nikon Plan Apo 4/0.2 NA .

The sepals have large glands that secrete nectar to attract pollinators, but what caught my eye were the glandular trichomes that rim the sepals (see last picture).





This image was cropped:

[zzffnn]

Very nice!

[leonardturner]

Nice group. I particularly like the last image.