Alocasia longiloba var. Watsoniana of Sarawak / Borneo, around 600m ASL Alocasia longiloba Miq. (Araceae) was validly described in 1856 in Flora van Nederlandsch-Indië (Volume 3: 207) and is listed as a separate species in current taxonomic references. According to…
Mistletoe fig, Ficus deltoidea of Sarawak/Borneo – around 1400m ASL. Ficus deltoidea Jack (Moraceae) is an accepted species that was first described by William Jack in 1822 in Malayan Miscellanies (2(7): 71). In the Kew taxonomic reference (Plants of the…
Pinanga ridleyana Becc. ex Furtado – central Sarawak / Borneo – around 550m ASL Pinanga ridleyana is a species of palm tree (Arecaceae) in the genus Pinanga. The name was validly published in 1934 in Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis…
Acriopsis liliifolia (J. Koenig) Seidenf. – of Sarawak/Borneo – around 870m ASL. Acriopsis liliifolia is a species of orchid (Orchidaceae) in the genus Acriopsis. The name is derived from the basionym Epidendrum liliifolium J. Koenig (1791); the combination Acriopsis liliifolia,…
Lobb’s bulbophyllum, Bulbophyllum lobbii Lindl. (1847) – of Sarawak/Borneo – around 1320m ASL. Bulbophyllum lobbii Lindl. (Orchidaceae) is an epiphytic species of sect. Sestochilus, distributed from NE India, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines in lowland–montane forests. Plants bear discrete pseudobulbs,…
Kinabalu mountain banana, Musa monticola M.Hotta ex Argent – of Sabah/Borneo – around 1620m ASL. Musa monticola is a wild banana endemic to the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo, where it is confined to montane habitats around Mount Kinabalu…
Glory Bower, Clerodendrum sp., of central Sarawak / Borneo around 400m ASL
Low’s pitcher-plant, Nepenthes lowii, of north Sarawak / Borneo around 2100m ASL Upper pitchers of Nepenthes lowii, which is a carnivorous plant from the genus pitcher plants (Nepenthes). It was first described around 1859 by botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker. The…
Amorphophallus pendulus Bogn. & Mayo – in situ – south Sarawak / Borneo.
Begonia acidulenta S.Julia & Kiew – in situ – central Sarawak / Borneo.