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Malaysia is located on the equator and various topography, including mountains, lowlands and coastal areas, contribute to its botanical diversity. In addition, Malaysia's flora has also been influenced by human activity, including agriculture, trade, and urbanization. Some plants have been introduced to Malaysia from other parts of the world ...
Malaysia is a Megadiverse country, [1] of which two thirds is covered in forest [2] which is believed to be 130million years old. [3] It is composed of a variety of types, although they are mainly dipterocarp forests. [4] There are an estimated 8,500 species of vascular plants in Peninsular Malaysia, with another 15,000 in the East. [5]
Flora Malesiana is a multi-volume flora describing the vascular plants of Malesia (the biogeographical region consisting of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, and Papua New Guinea ), published by the National Herbarium of the Netherlands since 1950. It currently consists of 204 full treatments, covering about 20% of a ...
Dipterocarpaceae is a family of 16 genera and about 695 known species [ 3] of mainly lowland tropical forest trees. Their distribution is pantropical, from northern South America to Africa, the Seychelles, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines. [ 4][ 5] The greatest diversity of Dipterocarpaceae occurs in Borneo. [ 6]
The political country of Malaysia is not a geographical unit employed in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Its flora is divided between a number of regions, which should be used instead where the information is available: Category:Flora of Peninsular Malaysia; Category:Flora of Sabah (Borneo)
Curcuma xanthorrhiza Roxb. orth. var. [ 1] Curcuma zanthorrhiza, known as temulawak, Java ginger, Javanese ginger, or Javanese turmeric is a plant species, belonging to the ginger family. [ 2] It is known in Javanese as temulawak, in Sundanese as koneng gede and in Madurese as temu labak. [ 2] The scientific name is sometimes written as Curcuma ...
Nepenthes gracilis(/nɪˈpɛnθiːzˈɡræsɪlɪs/; from Latin: gracilis"slender"), or the slender pitcher-plant,[5]is a common lowland pitcher plantthat is widespread in the Sundaregion. It has been recorded from Borneo, Cambodia,[6]Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sulawesi, Sumatra, and Thailand.
Nepenthes ampullaria (/ n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ iː z ˌ æ m p ʊ ˈ l ɛər i ə /; Latin ampulla meaning "flask") is a very distinctive and widespread species of tropical pitcher plant, present in Borneo, the Maluku Islands, New Guinea, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, and Thailand.