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Swietenia macrophylla, commonly known as mahogany, Honduran mahogany, Honduras mahogany, or big-leaf mahogany is a species of plant in the Meliaceae family. It is one of three species in genus Swietenia that yield genuine mahogany timber, the others being Swietenia mahagoni and Swietenia humilis. It is native to South America, Mexico and Central America, but naturalized in the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Hawaii, and cultivated in plantations and wind-breaks elsewhere.

Biermannia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is native to eastern India, China and Southeast Asia. Sir George King and Robert Pantling erected this genus in memory of Adolph Biermann who was the curator of Botanical garden in Kolkata.

Mangifera andamanica is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is endemic to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The fruits are edible and smaller than the Common Mango. This species is conserved at the Field Gene bank of Jawaharlal Neheru Tropical Botanic Garden and research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

Garcinia prainiana, known as the button mangosteen or cherapu, is a species of flowering plant in the family Clusiaceae. It is small or medium-sized tree which is native to Peninsular Malaysia and Peninsular Thailand. Its fruit has a flavor similar to its cousin, the purple mangosteen, with an interesting taste some have compared to a tangerine, but unlike its cousin it has a tissue-thin skin rather than a hard rind, making it much easier to eat out-of-hand. Also unlike the purple mangosteen, it can be grown in a container. The fruit is cultivated widely in Southeast Asia. In the United

Dipterocarpus kunstleri is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae, native to Southeast Asia.

Bulbophyllum rigidum is a species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae. It is found in eastern Himalayas, Assam India, Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim in evergreen temperate forests.

Dipterocarpus kerrii is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to the Andaman Islands, Sumatra, Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. This species is locally common in lowland semi-evergreen and evergreen dipterocarp forest. It is cut for keruing timber and yields oil (commonly called the keruing oil) for the region. The species is named after the Irish botanist A.F.G. Kerr.

Bulbophyllum depressum is a species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae.

Quercus lowii is a species of oak (Quercus) native to the mountains of northern Borneo.

Garcinia cadelliana is a critically endangered species of small tree in the family Clusiaceae. It is found only on the South Andaman Island of India.

Durio lowianus is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae sensu lato. It is native from Peninsular Thailand to Sumatra.

Bulbophyllum shanicum is a species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae.

Bulbophyllum cylindricum is a species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae. It is found in Sikkim.

Bulbophyllum cornu-cervi is a species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae.

Bulbophyllum collettii is a species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae.

Vatica nitens is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree native to Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo. It is an endangered species threatened by habitat loss.

Rubroshorea pauciflora (called, along with some other species in the genera Rubroshorea and Shorea, dark red meranti or red lauan) is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, and Sumatra. It is a large tree, with a cauliflower-shaped crown which can grow up to 60 metres tall and a straight, cylindrical bole up to 220 cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 4 metres tall. It grows in lowland and hill mixed dipterocarp rain forest on well-drained sandy and clayey soils up to 900 metres elevation. It is threatened by habitat loss. The species

Shorea glauca is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, and Thailand.

Hoya curtisii is a species of flowering plant in the genus Hoya. It is native to Southeast Asia across Thailand, the Philippines, Borneo, and Malaysia. The species has easily recognizable foliage among Hoyas with small, pointed leaves and silver variegation. Like many Hoyas, it grows as a creeping epiphyte.

Goniothalamus tenuifolius is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. George King, the British botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its slender (tenui- in Latin) leaved (-folius in Latin) foliage.

Goniothalamus ridleyi is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Thailand. George King, who first formally described the species, named it after the English botanist Henry Nicholas Ridley who collected the specimen King examined.

Ficus maclellandii (common name Alii fig or banana-leaf fig) is a species of fig plant in the family Moraceae. It is native to India, Southeast Asia and China. It is an evergreen often grown as a houseplant in temperate climates. The leaves are 8–13 cm and uniquely dimorphic; with narrow leaves on the lower, sterile branches and broader leaves on the higher branches.

Bulbophyllum piluliferum is a species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae.

Bulbophyllum oblanceolatum is a species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae.

Bulbophyllum linearifolium is a species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae.

Bulbophyllum gracilipes is a species of orchid in the family Orchidaceae.

Aglaia leucophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Meliaceae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.

Shorea maxwelliana is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is a tree native to Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, and Sumatra. It is a large tree with a large, loose, cauliflower-shaped crown which can grow up to 50 metres tall with a straight, cylindrical bole up to 160 cm in diameter. It grows in lowland mixed dipterocarp rain forest on low hills in well-drained clay-rich soils up to 700 metres elevation. It is threatened by habitat loss, and the IUCN Red List assesses the species as Vulnerable.

Rubroshorea curtisii (also called Seraya, and along with some other species in the genus Rubroshorea, dark red meranti) is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is native to Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and northwestern Borneo. It grows as a large tree with a grey or reddish-brown and coarsely fissured trunk; and a greyish-blue crown. It fruits every 5–10 years, after prolonged periods of drought. The species was first described as Shorea curtisii in 1893. In 2022 Peter Shaw Ashton and Jacqueline Heckenhauer placed the species in genus Rubroshorea as R. curtisii.

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