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Cynopterus horsfieldii Gray, 1843

Locally known as Horsfield’s fruit bat, Larger Dog-faced Fruit Bat or Cecadu Pisang Besar in Malay, Cynopterus horsfieldii is a medium-sized plant-visiting bat belonging to the family Pteropodidae (Tan et al., 1999).

Mrs. Nurfarhana Hizan Binti Hijas & Dr. Juliana Binti Senawi • 31 December 2020 • 25057 views

Dipterocarpus grandiflorus Blanco

Dipterocarpus grandiflorus is an emergent tree that can grow up to 45 m tall and 1.5 m in diameter.

Ms. Siti Fariezza Bt Khairi Thaw & Muhammad Hatta bin Ramli • 21 December 2020 • 26214 views

Pentaspadon motleyi Hook. f

Pentaspadon motleyi is known in Malay as Pelong licin. The epithet for the genus Pentaspadon is derived from the Greek words ‘penta’ meaning five and ‘spadon’ meaning eunuch, which refers to the five...

Mr. Ahmad Firdaus Zainuddin • 10 December 2020 • 25802 views

Cratoxylum cochinchinense (Lour.) Blume (Hypericaceae)

The family Hypericaceae comprises eight genera and 400 species distributed in temperate and tropical regions.

Mrs. Sarah Nabila Binti Rosli & Sarah Binti Haizam • 30 November 2020 • 27222 views

Vatica odorata (Griff). Symington

Vatica odorata, a member of the Dipterocarpaceae, is known by the locals in Peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak as Resak ranting kesat.

Ms. Siti Fariezza Bt Khairi Thaw • 20 November 2020 • 25319 views

Dryobalanops aromatica C.F. Gaertn

Dryobalanops is a genus of the family Dipterocarpaceae, with a total of 7 species distributed in Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo (Ashton et al., 1982).

Mrs. Syahida Emiza Suhaimi & Azrin Najua Md. Nor • 10 November 2020 • 27694 views

Shorea lamellata Foxw.

Shorea lamellata Foxw. is a dipterocarp tree species belonging to the white meranti group (usually called Meranti Pa’ang).

Mrs. Nur Hazwanie Binti Abd Halim • 30 October 2020 • 25113 views

Impatiens curtisii Hook. f. (Balsaminaceae)

Impatiens curtisii is a forest herb with an erect stem. It was described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1906 (Hooker, 1906). This species is endemic to Perak, and can only be found on Bukit Larut and Gunung Hijau at altitudes of 900 to 1,200 m above sea ...

Mrs. Sarah Nabila Binti Rosli • 20 October 2020 • 24634 views

Troides helena (Linnaeus, 1758)

Troides helena, locally known as the Common Birdwing, with its distinctive black and yellow wings, is among the most beautiful butterflies in Malaysia.

Mrs. Aziemah Binti Kinan • 10 October 2020 • 25925 views

Firmiana malayana Kosterm. (Malvaceae)

Firmiana malayana is commonly known as mata lembu in Malay or Bullock’s Eye in English.

Mrs. Norzielawati Bt. Salleh • 30 September 2020 • 25256 views

Spongispora temasekensis G. Wu, S.M.L. Lee, E. Horak & Zhu L. Yang 2018

Spongispora is a new boletoid genus of the Boletaceae with Spongispora temasekensis as the type species (Wu et al., 2018; Index Fungorum, 2020).

Mr. Mohd Salleh Sanusi, Mrs. Thi Bee Kin & Mrs. Patahayah Mansor • 15 September 2020 • 24612 views

Attacus atlas – Atlas Moth

The Atlas Moth, known scientifically as Attacus atlas, belongs to the family of the giant silkworm moth, Saturniidae.

Mr. Tan Kok Kiat • 28 August 2020 • 31678 views

Dipterocarpus costulatus Slooten

Dipterocarpus costulatus is known by locals as keruing kipas. Keruing is the vernacular name for the genus Dipterocarpus while kipas is the Malay word for fan.

Ms. Siti Fariezza Bt Khairi Thaw • 14 August 2020 • 25223 views

Climacodon sanguineus (Beeli) Maas Geest.

Climacodon sanguineus belongs to the family Meruliaceae, order Polyporales in the phylum Basidiomycota.

Mrs. Thi Bee Kin, Mr. Mohd Salleh Sanusi & Noorsiha Ayop • 30 July 2020 • 24808 views

Echinosorex gymnura (Raffles, 1822) (Moonrat)

Despite its appearance and name, the moonrat (Echinosorex gymnura) is not closely related to rats or other rodents.

Syaridzwan. M & Alwani. N. Z. • 15 July 2020 • 25456 views

Garcinia prainiana King. (Clusiaceae)

Known as cerapu or mencupu in Malay, Garcinia prainiana is a small tree up to 10 m tall, in the family Clusiaceae.

Mrs. Syazwani Bt. Azeman • 30 June 2020 • 25240 views

Naja sumatrana (Müller, 1890)

Naja sumatrana is more commonly known as the Sumatran Cobra (Das, 2015). It is in the Family Elapidae and is also called the Equatorial Spitting Cobra (Ecology Asia, 2019; Grismer et al., 2012).

Ms. Noor Faradiana Binti Md Fauzi, Mr. Mohammad Shahfiz Azman, Mr. Kaviarasu Munian, Ms. Nor Hazwani Binti Ahmad Ruzman & Mrs. Nur Alwani Binti Zakaria • 29 May 2020 • 25649 views

Aglaia korthalsii Miq. (Meliaceae)

Commonly known as kriah, sekriah or keriat in Malay, Aglaia korthalsii is a member of the family Meliaceae, which includes some common species such as sentul (Sandoricum koetjape) and sentang (...

Mrs. Syazwani Bt. Azeman • 30 April 2020 • 24327 views

Johannesteijsmannia lanceolata J. Dransf.

Malaysia has an estimated 28 genera of palms and Johannesteijsmannia is one of the most magnificent.

Mr. Tan Kok Kiat • 31 March 2020 • 24732 views

Coelostegia montana Sidiyasa

Coelostegia is a small genus in the subfamily Helicteroideae-Durioneae, family Bombacaceae or Malvaceae from western Malesia (Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Java, Sumatra and Borneo).

Mrs. Nadiah Idris • 28 February 2020 • 24029 views

Shorea henryana Pierre

Shorea henryana Pierre is one of the 62 Shorea species that occur in Peninsular Malaysia (Chua et al., 2010).

Ms. Nur Razan Faiqah Binti Zahili, Mrs. Nurfarhana Hizan Binti Hijas & Mr. Tan Kok Kiat • 31 January 2020 • 24452 views

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