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…
Balanophora sp. is a parasitic flowering plant of the Balanophoraceae family – of Kalimantan/Borneo – around 900m ASL. Balanophora is a genus of fully parasitic flowering plants (family Balanophoraceae, order Santalales) whose range includes parts of Southeast Asia, including Borneo. The…
Schoenorchis buddleiflora, (Schltr. & J.J.Sm.) J.J.Sm. 1912 (Kew) – of Sarawak/Borneo – around 1010m ASL. Schoenorchis buddleiflora is a species of the orchid family (Orchidaceae). It was published by Johannes Jacobus Smith in the journal Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indië, volume 72,…
Coelogyne pholidotoides, J.J.Sm. 1903 (Kew) – of Sarawak/Borneo – around 1020m ASL. Coelogyne pholidotoides is a species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae. Taxonomic literature lists it as native to Borneo, with evidence cited for Sabah, Sarawak and West Kalimantan.…
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…
Tree fern – Sphaeropteris glauca (Blume) R.M.Tryon of Sarawak/Borneo – around 900m ASL. Sphaeropteris glauca (Blume) R.M.Tryon (Cyatheaceae, order Cyatheales) is a tree-like fern; the name was published in this combination in 1970. Homotypic synonyms include Chnoophora glauca Blume (1828) and…
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…
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…
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,…