BAT-ATTRACTING PLANTS FOR YOUR GARDEN Conservation status Provide Provide Species Family (RDB 2008) Habitat Habit nectar fruits Notes Bouea macrophylla Anacardiaceae Critically endangered Lowland forest Tree + Bouea oppositifolia Anacardiaceae Vulnerable Lowland forest Tree + Buchanania sessifolia Anacardiaceae Vulnerable Lowland forest Tree + Mangifera caesia Anacardiaceae Critically endangered Lowland forest Tree + Mangifera foetida Anacardiaceae Vulnerable Lowland forest Tree + Mangifera griffithii Anacardiaceae Endangered Wet lowland forest Tree + Mangifera lagenifera Anacardiaceae Critically endangered Lowland forest Tree + Mangifera laurina Anacardiaceae Nationally extinct Lowland forest Tree + Mangifera macrocarpa Anacardiaceae Vulnerable Lowland forest Tree + Mangifera magnifica Anacardiaceae Critically endangered Lowland forest Tree + Mangifera odorata Anacardiaceae Vulnerable Lowland forest Tree + Freshwater swamp Mangifera paludosa Anacardiaceae Nationally extinct forest Tree + Mangifera parvifolia Anacardiaceae Nationally extinct Lowland forest Tree + Melanochyla auriculata Anacardiaceae Vulnerable Lowland forest Tree + Lowland swampy Melanochyla bracteata Anacardiaceae Vulnerable forest Tree + Melanochyla caesia Anacardiaceae Vulnerable Lowland forest Tree + Parishia insignis Anacardiaceae Vulnerable Lowland swamps Tree + Parishia maingayi Anacardiaceae Vulnerable Lowland forest Tree + Swampy lowland Deplanchea bancana Bignoniaceae Nationally extinct forest Tree + Dolichandrone spathacea Bignoniaceae Critically endangered Mangroves Tree + Primary and Pajanelia longifolia Bignoniaceae Nationally extinct secondary forest Tree + Sonneratia alba Lythraceae Common Mangroves Tree + Compiled by National Biodiversity Centre, NParks 1 Conservation status Provide Provide Species Family (RDB 2008) Habitat Habit nectar fruits Notes Sonneratia caeseolaris Lythraceae Critically endangered Mangroves Tree + Durio griffithii Malvaceae Endangered Lowland forest Tree + Durio singaporensis Malvaceae Vulnerable Lowland forest Tree + Freshwater swamp Neesia malayana Malvaceae Nationally extinct forest Tree + Neesia synandra Malvaceae Vulnerable Wet lowland forest Tree + Attracts Ficus caulocarpa Moraceae Common Widespread Strangler + bird Attracts Ficus fistulosa Moraceae Common Secondary forest Tree + bird Lowland to Epiphytic Attracts Ficus heteropleura Moraceae Common montane forest shrub + bird Attracts Ficus microcarpa Moraceae Common Swampy places Tree + bird Open country and Attracts Ficus variegata Moraceae Common forest margins Tree + bird Chrysophyllum roxburghii Sapotaceae Critically endangered Lowland forest Tree + Madhuca decipiens Sapotaceae Nationally extinct Lowland forest Tree + Madhuca iana Sapotaceae Endangered Lowland forest Tree + Madhuca malaccensis Sapotaceae Critically endangered Lowland forest Tree + Lowland forest and Madhuca motleyana Sapotaceae Critically endangered swamps Tree + Madhuca sericea Sapotaceae Critically endangered Lowland forest Tree + Palaquium gutta Sapotaceae Critically endangered Lowland forest Tree + Palaquium microphyllum Sapotaceae Critically endangered Lowland forest Tree + Palaquium obovatum Sapotaceae Vulnerable Lowland forest Tree + Palaquium oxleyanum Sapotaceae Nationally extinct Lowland forest Tree + Palaquium ridleyi Sapotaceae Nationally extinct Lowland swamp Tree + Compiled by National Biodiversity Centre, NParks 2 Conservation status Provide Provide Species Family (RDB 2008) Habitat Habit nectar fruits Notes forest Palaquium rostratum Sapotaceae Critically endangered Lowland forest Tree + Swampy lowland Palaquium xanthochymum Sapotaceae Critically endangered forest Tree + Pouteria obovata Sapotaceae Vulnerable Sandy shores Tree + Sarcosperma paniculatum Sapotaceae Nationally extinct Lowland forest Tree + References: Davison, G.W.H., Ng, P.K.L. & Ho, H.C. (eds.) (2008) The Singapore Red Data Book (2nd edition). Singapore: Nature Society (Singapore). IUCN Website. http://www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/html/Old%20world%20fruit%20bats/Chapter%201.html Last updated: May 2009 Compiled by National Biodiversity Centre, NParks 3 .