Tag Archives: Borneo

Saurauia minutiflora K. M. Wong

Small-flowered Saurauia (Saurauia minutiflora)

This species was described in 2017; it is a small, only about 3 m tall treelet that is known only from the type locality at the Sungai Berangan River in the Malaysian part of Borneo.

The only known locality has been affected by the development of the hydroelectric dam which led to the degradation of the forest.

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The photo below shows an unspecified congeneric species that was photographed on the island of Borneo, Indonesia.

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unspecified Saurauia species (Saurauia sp.)

photo: Shawn O’Donnell
https://www.inaturalist.org/people/shawnodonnell
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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edited: 20.02.2024

Vatica pentandra P. S. Ashton

(Vatica pentandra)

This species is only known from the type collection that was taken in 1955 at the Belayan River in the East Kalimantan Province of Borneo, Indonesia.

This area is now largely overrun by oil palm plantations, the species wasn’t found in recent surveys and might well be extinct.
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edited: 05.01.2024

Zapornia pusilla ssp. mira (Riley)

Bornean Crake (Zapornia pusilla ssp. mira)  

The Bornean Crake, described in 1938, is regarded to as a subspecies of Baillon’s Crake (Zapornia pusilla (Pallas)), but may in fact well represent a distinct species.  

The bird is known apparently only from the type specimen, a female that was collected in 1912 in the eastern part of Borneo.  

The Bornean Crake is more or less similar to Baillon’s Crake, but is smaller and differs somewhat in its coloration.  

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edited: 20.03.2018