''Daphniphyllum griffithianum'' is a tree species in the family Daphniphyllaceae. It is native to an area from

Nusa Tenggara The Lesser Sunda Islands or nowadays known as Nusa Tenggara Islands ( id, Kepulauan Nusa Tenggara, formerly ) are an archipelago in Maritime Southeast Asia, north of Australia. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up ...

, Indonesia to Thailand.

Taxonomy

The species is in section ''Lunata'' of ''Daphniphyllum'', along with '' D. calycinum'' and '' D. majus''. This current species was described by the botanist

Henry John Noltie Henry Noltie (born 1957) is a British botanist. He worked as a curator and taxonomist at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Life and career Education and work Noltie studied botany at the University of Oxford, and Museum Studies at Leicest ...

(born 1957) in 2005, in the publication '' Regnum Vegatibile: a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers'' (Utrecht). This was a re-working of the taxa, originally named by the Scottish surgeon and botanist

Robert Wight Robert Wight MD FRS FLS (6 July 1796 – 26 May 1872) was a Scottish surgeon in the East India Company, whose professional career was spent entirely in southern India, where his greatest achievements were in botany – as an economic botani ...

(1796-1872) as ''Goughia griffithiana'' in 1852. Wight was a leading plant taxonomist of South India.

Distribution

It is native to an area from

, Indonesia to Thailand. Countries and regions that it has been recorded are: Indonesia (Nusa Tenggara,

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); Malaysia (

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Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia ( ms, Semenanjung Malaysia; Jawi: سمننجڠ مليسيا), or the States of Malaya ( ms, Negeri-negeri Tanah Melayu; Jawi: نڬري-نڬري تانه ملايو), also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, ...

); and Thailand.

Habitat and ecology

The species is of low-moderate abundance in the peat swamp forest of PT National Sago Prima of PT Sampoerna Agro tbk,

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, Sumatera. This forest was logged some 28 years before study. This is enough time for the vegetation community to return to primary forest but there is still a considerable presence of secondary forest taxa. The most important taxa at the time of study were ''

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'' and ''

Blumeodendron subrotundifolium ''Blumeodendron'' is a genus of dioecious trees of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1873. It is widespread across much of Southeast Asia and Papuasia. Species Species accepted, as of March 2021, are: *''Blumeodendron born ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15454960 griffithianum Flora of Borneo Flora of Peninsular Malaysia Flora of Sumatra Flora of Thailand Flora of the Lesser Sunda Islands Plants described in 2005

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