''Vatica palungensis'' is a tree in the family

Dipterocarpaceae Dipterocarpaceae is a family (biology), family of flowering plants with 22 genera and about 695 known species of mainly lowland tropical forest trees. Their distribution is pantropical, from northern South America to Africa, the Seychelles, India ...

. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to Borneo, where it is known only from

West Kalimantan West Kalimantan () is a province of Indonesia. It is one of five Indonesian provinces comprising Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Its capital and largest city is Pontianak. It is bordered by East Kalimantan and Central ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

. ''Vatica palungensis'' is recorded from a single area in Cabang Panti Research Site of

Gunung Palung National Park Mount Palung National Park () lies on the island of Borneo, in the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan, north of Ketapang and east of Sukadana. History Mount Palung was first protected in 1937 as a forest nature reserve covering . In 1981, ...

in West Kalimantan, between 665 and 1,000 metres elevation. It grows in dense, stunted '' kerangas'' forests on infertile steep sandstone slopes with exposed granite rocks.

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palungensis Endemic dipterocarps of Borneo Flora of the Sundaland heath forests Flora of Kalimantan Endemic flora of Indonesia Plants described in 2015 Taxa named by Peter Shaw Ashton {{Dipterocarpaceae-stub