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PertanikaJ. Trop. Agric. Sci. 24(1): 63 - 78 (2001) ISSN: 1511-3701 © Universiti Putra Malaysia Press An Annotated Checklist of Higher Plants in Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve, Puchong, Selangor I. FARIDAH HANUMI, A. Z. IBRAHIM2, SHAMSUL KHAMIS~, M. NAZRE1, P. LEPUNI, G. RUSEA\ J. J. LAJUNI!> & A. LATIFP IFaculty ofForestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 2School ofEnvironmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi Selangor, Malaysia )Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 4Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Environment Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. 5Institute for Environment and Development, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia Keywords : Annotated checklist, higher plants, Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve ABSTRAK Hutan Simpan Ayer Hitam ialah suatu hutan subjenis Kelat-Kedondong bagi hutan tanah rendah dipterokarpa yang terletak di Lembah Klang yang kini sedang mengalami suatu pembangunan sosio-ekonomi dan jizikal amat pesat. Hutan ini telah beberapa kali dibalak dalam 60 tahun yang lalu dan kini beberapa ceruk vegetasmya sedang menuju he arah klimaks semula. Ekspedisi ini yang telah dijalankan pada 2-5 Mei 2000. merangkumi beberapa ahli botani yang telah memerhati dan mengutip spesimen tumbuhan. Enumerasi yang diberikan di sini adalah berdasarkan kepada spesimen yang dikutip semasa ekspedisi, mencakupi 262 spesies tumbuhan vaskular yang tergolong dalam 142 genus dan 56famili. Famili Myrtaceae, dengan 22 spesies adalah famili yang terbesar di dalam senarai, diikuti oleh Euphorbiaceae, Dipterocarpaceae dan Annonaceae, masing­ masing dengan 21, 17 dan 14 spesies. Spesies genus Knema adalah yang terbesar dengan 13 spesies dan diikuti oleh Memecylon Syzygium dan Diospyros, masing-masing dengan 9, 7 dan 7 spesies. ABSTRACf Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve is a Kelat-Kedondong subtype of the lowland dipterocarp forest situated in the Klang Valley which is currently undergoing a tremedous pace ofsocio-economic and physical development. The forest had been logged many times in the last 60 years or so and most vegetation niches are beginning to recover to their climax again. Our expedition, from 2-5 May 2000 involved a few botanists who observed and collected specimens of higher plants. The enumeration provided here is based only on the specimens collected during the expedition, includes 262 species ofvascular plants belonging to 142 genera and 56families: The Myrtaceae, with 22 species is the largest family in the checklist, followed by Euphorbiaceae, Dipterocarpaceae and Annonaceae with 21, 17 and 14 species, respectively. Species-wise the genus Knema, is the largest with 13 species, followed by Memecylon, Syzygium and Diospyros with 9, 7, and 7 species, respectively. INTRODUCTION the University for 80 years for the purpose of The Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve, Puchong, education and research. In the past 10 years the Selangor covers an area of about, 3,500 ha prior University had used the forests for various to lease to Universiti Putra Malaysia in 1996. educational purposes including industrial The Selangor State Goverment on 7th October training of their forestry students and also 1996 leased this patch of the remaining lowland research in biodiversity and environment by forest in the Klang Valley with 6 compartments, students and staffs from various faculties. The namely Compartments 1, 2, 12, 13, 14 and 15 to faculty members also were active in various J. FARIDAH HANUM. A.Z. IBRAHIM, SHAMSUL KHAMIS. M. NAZRE, P. LEPUN. G. RUSEA. J. J. LAJUNI & A. LATIFF resear~h projects in the forest. The size of this alphabetically by families. each family is followed forest ~s now reduced by a~out 64% to 1,248 ~a, by the species known, according to Turner after It was further excised for some SOCia- (1995). Where possible local name(s) is included ecomonic development projects such as housing with brief notes on habit and distribution. estates, oil palm plantation, new townships, factories, and highways, among others. In the Gynmospenns present survey, this forest is classified as a 1.0 Podocarpaceae disturbed Kelar-Kedondong-Mixed Dipterocarp 1.1 Podocarpus neriifolius D. Don type of lowland forest type (Faridah Hanum, Podo Bukit 1999). Mat-Salleh (1999) has shown the role and Tree to 20 m tall; normally confined to function of a similar forest at Universiti hill and montane forests; its occurrence Kebangsaan Malaysia that has been used by in this forest is botanically very interesting. students and staff for similar purposes. The Ayer Probably it is introduced from the hill Hitam FR is located at 30 00.00' N to 30 02.20' forest or an escape from cultivation. Nand 101 0 37.90' E to 101 0 40.00' E, approxi­ 2.0 Gnetaceae mately 20 km southwest of Kuala Lumpur. 2.1 Gnetum cuspidatum Blume Currently, this forest is thus completely Large liana; commonly found in the surrounded by developed and developing areas, lowland and hill forests; widespread. making it an "island forest" isolated in the Angiospenns - Dicotyledons middle of modern infrastructures and urban 1.0 Acanthaceae society. Being strategically located within the 1.1 Acanthus volubilis Wall. Multimedia Super Corridor, that connects the Trailing shrub which is commonly found commercial city of Kuala Lumpur with the new scattered in the surveyed area. administrative city of Putrajaya and business city 1.2 Asystasia gangetica (L.) T. Anderson of Cyberjaya, it is the only remaining lowland Rumput Israel forest found in the Klang Valley, other than the Creeping herbs; normally found in waste smaller Bukit Nenas Forest Reserve in the heart and idle areas, sometimes in cultivated of Kuala Lumpur. Historically, this forest was areas too; could be considered a noxious selectively logged several times from 1936 to weed which is believed to be introduced 1966 and the impoverished diversity has begun from India and now beginning to be to recover quite well (Mohamad Zakaria and naturalized in the country. Abdul Rahim 1999; Mohamad Zakaria and 2.0 Alangiaceae Rahmat Topani 1999). Formerly, the area was 2.1 Alangium ebenaceum (G.B. Clarke) Harms occupied by one of the remaining group of var. ebenaceum indigenous people, the Temuan tribe, but now Mentulang Daun Bluur moved to other more-disurbed areas of the Tree to 10 m tall; commonly found in forest (Faridah Hanum and Nurulhuda Hamzah lowland forest. 1999). This forest is also readily accesible by all 3.0 Anacardiaceae kind of vehicles up to the base camp. 3.1 Bouea macrophylla GrifT. Logging activities were carried out in Kundang compartments 12 and 13 from 1936 until 1966. Tree reaching up to 20 m, produce edible In those 30 years, these compartments were fruits; quite common in lowland' and hill logged three times using Comercial Regeneration forest. Felling system in 1936-1943 and 1965-1966, and 3.2 Bouea oppositifolia (Roxb.) Meisn. Selective Felling in 1946-1954 (Faridah Hanum Kundang Tikus, Rumia 1999). However, in 1990 silvicultural treatment Tree reaching to 20 m tall, also bears has been carried out in these compartments. edible fruits; lowland forest up to 700 m altitude; widespread. CHECKLIST OF HIGHER PLANTS IN 3.3 Buchanania sessifolia Blume AYER HITAM FOREST RESERVE Rengas Air The checklist produced below is the result of Small to medium tree; lowland forest to botanical observation and collection done during 700 m; throughout. the Scientific Expedition. It is arranged 64 PERTANIKAJ. TROP. AGRIC. SCI. VOL. 24 NO.1, 2001 AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF HIGHER PLANTS IN AYER HITAM FOREST RESERVE, PUCHONG, SElANGOR 3.4 Gluta malayana (Corner) Ding Hou good timber; rather common in lowland Rengas Kerbau J alang forest; widespread. Tree to 30 m taU; lowland forest, inlcluding 4.7 Phaeathus ophthaLmicus (Roxb. ex G.Don) J. swampy areas; quite widespread. Sinclair 3.5 Mangifera mag;nifica Kochummen Mempisang Macang Hutan Small shrub; lowland forest; widespread. Big tree reaching 30 m tall; lowland forest 4.8 Polyalthia caulijlora Hook.f & Thomson to 700 m altitude; widespread and var. caulijlora apparently quite common in Pasoh Forest Mempisang Reserve. Shrub or small tree; lowland forest; quite 3.6 Mangifera quadrifida Jack widespread. Macang hutan 4.9 Polyalthia motleyana (Hook.f) Airy Shaw Tree to 30 m tall; lowland rain forest to var. obLonga (King) J. Sinclair 900 m altitude; widespread. Mempisang 3.7 Melanochyla angustifolia Hook.f Small tree to 4 m tall; lowland to lower Rengas montane forest. Tree to 20 m tall; lowland forest to 600 m 4.10 Polyalthia rumphii (Blume) Merr. altitude; widespread. Mempisang 3.8 Melanochyla fulvinervis (Blume) Ding Hou Tree to 15 m tall; lowland and hill forest; Rengas Padi Kulit Hitam widespread. Tree to 20 m tall; lowland forest, 4.11 Polyalthia sumatrana (Miq.) Kun occasionally in the hills up to 1350 m Mempisang altitude; widespread. Tree to 20 m tall; lowland and hill forest; 3.9 Parishia paucijuga Engl. widespread. Rengas 4.12 Popowia fusca King Tree to 30 m tall; lowland and hill forest Mempisang to 400 m altitude; widespread. Tree to 10m tall; lowland forest; endemic 4.0 Annonaceae to Peninsular Malaysia with restricted 4.1 Alphonsea curtisii King distribution. Mempisang 4.13 Xylopia densifolia Hook.f Medium tree reaching 20 m tall; lowland Mempisang forest; an element of the northern part of 4.14 Xylopia ferruginea (Hook.! & Thomson) Peninsular Malaysia but recorded for the Hook.j & Thomson var. ferruginea first time in Selangor. Jangkang Bukit 4.2 Alphonsea cylindrica King Tree to 20 m tall; lowland forest; Mempisang widespread. Tree to 10m tall; lowland forest; not 5.0 Apocynaceae widespread. 5.1 Dyera costulata (Miq.) Hook. j 4.3 Alphonsea Lucida King Jelutong Mempisang Huge lactiferous tree reaching 40 m; Shrub to 3 m tall; lowland forest; endemic lowland forests; has been reported to Peninsular Malaysia. gregariously growing in Kuala Langat 4.4 Fissistigma kingii (Boerl.) Burkill South peatswamp forest; widespread.
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    Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 53 (2001) 291-313. New Species, Varieties and Reductions in Diospyros (Ebenaceae) in Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia including Peninsular Thailand FRANCIS S.P. NG 'I0Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong, 52109 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Abstract In the genus Diospyros, seven new species (D. beccarioides Ng, D. brainii Ng, D. crockerensis Ng, D. keningauensis Ng, D, lunduensis Ng, D. multinervis Ng and D. parabuxifolia Ng) and six new varieties (D. curranii Merr. var. kalimantanensis Ng; D. ferruginescens Bakh. var. rufotomentosa Ng; D. lanceifolia Roxb. var. iliaspaiei Ng, var. renageorgei Ng, var. saliciformis Ng; D. penibukanensis Bakh. var. scalarinervis Ng) are described. Thirty species or varieties are reduced to synonymy. Introduction In revising the genus Diospyros for the Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak, I took the opportunity to review the genus for Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia. This has resulted in the recognition of seven new species and six new varieties, and the reduction bf 30 species or varieties to synonymy. New Species 1. Diospyros beccarioides Ng, sp. nov. Arbor ad 20 m alta; rami dense rubro-brunnee pubescentes demum glabrescentes. Folia membranacea ad chartacea, glabra, oblonga ad ovato- oblonga 16-30 cm longa 5.5-11 cm lata, basi cuneata leviter attenuata rare rotundata, apice acuminato, costa supra immersa plana vel 'marginibus' elevatis provisa, infra nervis lateralibus prominentibus paribus 7-13 incurvatis ante margines anastomosantibus venam intra-marginalem plus minusve distinctam formantibus, venatione intercostali prominula laxe scalariformi; petiolus 0.8-1.5 cm longus. Inflorescentia mascula cymis subsessilis condensatis floribus ut videtur 3 vel plus sed ignotis. Fructus 1- 3 pedicellis 0.3-0.8 cm longis suffulti, globosi ad 2.5 cm diam.
  • Soepadmo, E., LG Saw and RCK Chung, (Eds.), 2002. Tree Flora Of

    Soepadmo, E., LG Saw and RCK Chung, (Eds.), 2002. Tree Flora Of

    Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 54 (2002) 289-292. Book Review: Soepadmo, E., L.G. Saw and R.C.K. Chung, (eds.), 2002. Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak. Volume 4. Sabah Forestry Department, Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Sarawak Forestry Department. xii + 388 pp. ISBN 983-2181-27-5 (Vol. 4). Price: RM 100 or US$ 100. The ambitiousness of this project should not be underestimated. Northern Borneo contains, for its area, the largest lowland tree flora of anywhere in the Old World, and possibly anywhere. When the work is completed, the 75,000 square miles of Sabah and Sarawak may have been found to contain in excess of 5,000 tree species. This is the first flora for a major region of Borneo. Merrill's Bibliographic Enumeration of Bornean Plants (Journal Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society, Special Number, 1921), extended by Masamune (Enumeratio Phanerogamarum Bornearum, 1942) contains but a rudimentary and outdated base. The regional Flora Malesiana provides an invaluable foundation, but hardly more than one third of the families have yet been treated by that great enterprise, while a close regional scrutiny is permitting more discriminating taxon recognition. Tim Whitmore, K.M. Kochummen and Francis Ng's groundbreaking Tree Flora of Malaya (Longmans, 1972-89), which treated just under 3000 species over 24 years, was based on a vastly greater previous botanical corpus including King's Materials for a Flora of the Malay Peninsula (1896) and Ridley's Flora of the Malay Peninsula (Reeves, 1922-25). At a time when biological research in Malaysia is somewhat in the doldrums, Engkik Soepadmo and his colleagues are succeeding, overall, in a genuinely indigenous enterprise while determinedly holding to international standards.