In situ Licuala cordata Becc. of Sarawak/Borneo – around 600m ASL. Licuala cordata Becc. (Arecaceae, Arecales) was first described by Odoardo Beccari; it was first published in Malesia 3: 84 (1886). According to Plants of the World Online, the species…
Beccari’s bulbophyllum, Bulbophyllum beccarii Rchb.f. – of Sarawak/Borneo – around 220m ASL. From a botanical perspective, Bulbophyllum beccarii is an orchid species (family Orchidaceae) native to Borneo, which was first scientifically described in 1879 by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach filius. The…
Rhaphidophora tenuis – of Kalimantan/Borneo – around 1000m ASL. In taxonomic literature, R. tenuis was at times treated as a synonym of Rhaphidophora korthalsii; in 2006, Peter C. Boyce reclassified the species as a separate clade and stated that it…
Etlingera velutina (Ridl.) R.M.Sm. of Sarawak / Borneo – around 500m ASL Etlingera velutina (Ridl.) R.M.Sm. is a species of ginger (Zingiberaceae) from Borneo; in Plants of the World Online, its natural occurrence is given as northern and north-western Borneo,…
This is most likely Pinanga aristata (Burret) J.Dransf. – central Sarawak / Borneo Pinanga aristata (Burret) J. Dransf. is a species of palm in the family Arecaceae (order Arecales). The currently accepted name was published by John Dransfield in Kew…
Scindapsus pictus Hassk. – of Sarawak/Borneo – around 1000m ASL. Scindapsus pictus (Araceae) was first described in 1842 in the Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie (volume/issue ‘ix’, p. 164); the author abbreviation ‘Hassk.’ stands for the botanist Justus Carl…
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…