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…
Fish Hook Ant, Polyrhachis ypsilon Emery, 1887 of Sarawak / Borneo – around 1200m ASL Polyrhachis ypsilon Emery, 1887 is an ant species of the subfamily Formicinae (tribe Camponotini) from the genus Polyrhachis (subgenus Polyrhachis) and is assigned to the…
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…
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,…
Philippine slow lori, Nycticebus menagensis (Lydekker, 1893) of Borneo, around 800m ASL. Nycticebus menagensis (Philippine slow loris) is a nocturnal, arboreal strepsirrhine primate of the family Lorisidae, distributed in northern and eastern Borneo and parts of the southern Philippine archipelago.…