Carnivorous plant that traps prey underground is the 1st of its kind to be discovered | CNN
The newly discovered species of pitcher plant, Nepenthes pudica, was found in the Indonesian province of North Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo.
"The plant forms specialized underground shoots with small, white, chlorophyll-free leaves, the researchers said. The pitchers are much larger than the leaves and have a reddish color.
“This species places its up-to-11-cm-long (4.3-inch-long) pitchers underground, where they are formed in cavities or directly in the soil and trap animals living underground, usually ants, mites and beetles,” said lead study author Martin Dančák of Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, in a news release."
