Unraveling the origins of Malesia's once vast, hyperdiverse rainforests is a perennial
challenge. Major contributions to rainforest assembly came from floristic elements carried on …

Abstract The Eastern Himalayas are renowned for their high plant diversity. To understand
how this modern botanical richness formed, it is critical to investigate past plant biodiversity …

Asian tropical forests are amongst the most diverse on the planet, a richness that belies the
fact that they are dominated by a single family of trees, the Dipterocarpaceae. Many other …

The Dipterocarpaceae, a well known and economically important family of trees of the
tropical rain forests of Asia, comprise over 470 species. These angiosperm trees contribute …

Dipterocarpaceae are a dominant tree family in pantropical rain forests. Molecular
phylogenetic studies suggest that it had an ancient Gondwanan origin. However, the family …

Medieval Arab traders, bartering for forest products with indigenous tribes along the
unending coastlines of the Malesian archipelago were first to recognise the value of the …

Dipterocarpoideae, the largest subfamily in the Meranti family (Dipterocarpaceae) are an
ecologically dominant group of trees throughout much of wet tropical Asia. Increasing …

• Premise of the study: Dipterocarps are the representative component of tropical rain forests
in Southeast Asia and hold important economic and ecological significance, but their origin …

The complex paleobotanical investigations carried out in the Maoming sedimentary basin
(Guangdong Province, South China) yielded first data on the taxonomic composition and …

We report the occurrence of two leaf impressions and one leaf compression along with one
winged fruit and two fruiting calyx lobes, resembling those of Shorea Roxburgh ex CF …