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Pseuduvaria borneensis

Pseuduvaria borneensis
Photo: The herbarium specimen is attributed to Kuswata Kartawinata, the photograph is unattributed other than to say it was pro, CC BY-SA 3.0

Pseuduvaria borneensis is a forest tree from Borneo, reaching about 30 m, known only from wild lowland rainforest. It is not a cultivated garden or houseplant, so care is not really applicable.

Family
Annonaceae (Annon family)
Grows as
Tree
Soil
Lowland rainforest soils, often by streams on sandstone, clay or coral limestone
Native range
Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Pseuduvaria borneensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Annonaceae. It is a tree endemic to Borneo. Yvonne Chuan Fang Su and Richard M.K. Saunders, the botanists who first formally described the species, named it after the regions of Borneo where it is distributed including East Kalimantan, Sabah and Sarawak.

Where it grows

Pseududuvaria borneensis is endemic to Borneo. It is widespread on the island, and is found in east and north Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo, as well as in Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo and in Brunei. The species' estimated area of occupancy (AOO) is 52 km2 (20 sq mi) and its estimated extent of occurrence (EOO) is 176,441 km2 (68,124 sq mi).

Other Pseuduvaria plants

Pseuduvaria aurantiaca · Pseuduvaria beccarii · Pseuduvaria bruneiensis · Pseuduvaria calliura · Pseuduvaria cerina · Pseuduvaria clemensiae · Pseuduvaria coriacea · Pseuduvaria costata · Pseuduvaria cymosa · Pseuduvaria dielsiana · Pseuduvaria fragrans · Pseuduvaria froggattii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pseuduvaria borneensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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