Nepenthaceae

=Family description=
 * Carnivorous herbs**, often climbing.
 * Leaves** simple, alternate; margin entire; stipules caducous, producing tendrils, which are prolongations of the leaf midrib. The end of the tendril develops into a pitcher to attract, trap and digest insects.
 * Flowers** in racemes or panicles, unisexual (male and female flowers on different plants), regular, 4(3--6)-merous, tepals free or basally connate. Stamens 4-many, into a whorl of anthers at the top of a column. Ovary 4-locular, superior, style 1, short or lacking, with 1 discoid stigma.
 * Fruit** capsular. Seeds with small embryo and fleshy endosperm, with hair-like projections.

=General info=
 * Distribution** One genus with c. 80 species, throughout South East Asia and Madagascar and Seychelles, usually on poor soils.
 * Ecology** Often in swamps or very poor sandy soils, usually on open places with lots of light. Nutrients are provided by insect trapping and digesting.
 * Uses** Sometimes as an ornamental.

=Treated genera=
 * Nepenthes