dipterocarps

There are about 3,000 species, including more than 265 species of dipterocarps; no less than 155 of these are endemic to the island.

Biological diversity in Sundaland 2008

Here the woodlands are dominated by dipterocarps such as Dipterocarpus tuberculatus and D. obtusifolia and oaks such as Quercus kerrii.

Kayah-Karen montane rain forests 2008

Directional large-scale population movements in scattered or condensed herds lasting days, weeks, or even months are reported for other subspecies in Borneo and Sumatra; this is generally associated with the mast fruiting of dipterocarps.

Palawan rain forests 2008

No one family dominates the forests of Java, as is the case with the dipterocarps in Sumatra and Borneo.

Eastern Java-Bali rain forests 2008

Palawan's forests are of low commercial value because of the small number of dipterocarps, and until the last twenty years Palawan's forests were ignored in favor of the more valuable forests of Luzon and Mindanao.

Palawan rain forests 2008

Borneo has more than 3,000 tree species and 2,000 orchid species and is the center of distribution of dipterocarps, with 267 species, 60 percent of them endemic.

Borneo lowland rain forests 2008

In the richest forests, up to 80 percent of the emergent trees are dipterocarps, although the white-barked Koompassia tree (Laurelaceae) is a readily identifiable emergent as well.

Borneo lowland rain forests 2008

With 267 Dipterocarpaceae species (155 endemic to Borneo), Borneo is the center of the world's diversity for dipterocarps.

Borneo lowland rain forests 2008

In some cases Euphorbiaceae is more common than dipterocarps, being the second most common family in Borneo.

Borneo lowland rain forests 2008

A small number of dipterocarps, an important timber tree group, are present on the island, as well as a variety of medicinal plants used by ethnic tribes and plants used in ceremony and as ornamentals.

Palawan rain forests 2008