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Schima brevifolia

Schima brevifolia
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0
Family
Theaceae (Tea & camellia family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Schima brevifolia is a species of flowering plant in the tea family Theaceae. It is native to Borneo. A shrub or small tree typically 2 m (7 ft) tall but reaching 5 m (16 ft), it is found in variety of montane habitats, including oak woodlands, mossy forests, and bare sandstone at elevations from 1,800 to 3,500 m (5,900 to 11,500 ft) on the slopes of Mount Kinabalu and the Kelabit Highlands.

Other Schima plants

Chinese Gugertree · Needlewood · Schima

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Schima brevifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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