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The Flora of Malaysia comprises a vast assemblage of plant species estimated to over 15,500 vascular plants. [ 1] Malaysia boasts 8,019 species of seed plants: 19 species of Gymnosperms and 8,000 Angiosperms. [ 2] Globally, Malaysia is ranked 14th in terms of species of vascular plants. The Flora of Malaysia consist of approximately 15,000 ...
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. 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.
Flora of Malaysia. 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)
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.
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 × hookeriana ( / nɪˈpɛnθiːz ˌhʊkəriˈɑːnə /; after Joseph Dalton Hooker ), or Hooker's pitcher-plant, [6] is a common natural hybrid involving N. ampullaria and N. rafflesiana. It was originally described as a species. It is a relatively common natural hybrid found throughout the lowlands of Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia ...