Forest Herbarium News

 

  • The 16th Flora of Thailand Meeting will be held at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK; 7-12 September 2014


Thai Plant Names

 

The database includes the Thai plant names-botanical names covering about 70 percent of vascular plants known from Thailand based on the book "Thai Plant Names" by Tem Smitinand (revised edition 2001).

 

Bibliography

 

This bibliography contains more than 2,500 references of monographs, taxonomic revision, new records, new species... etc., of vascular plants found in Thailand. It has been primarily designating as a practical tool to search for the most relevant papers concerning plant identification, classification and nomenclature of some taxa of Thai vascular plants.

 

Plant Specimens databases

 

  • Type specimens database
  • The database includes 432 type specimens deposited at the Forest Herbarium. Images are also available.

 

 

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Paphiopedilum appletonianum (Gower) Rolfe

Paphiopedilum appletonianum (Gower) Rolfe

Terrestrial orchid; inflorescences 1-flowered; petals purple-pink, greenish below with brownish red spots on upper part, 4.4-5.8 cm long, slightly twisted; labellum with oblique dentate apex; staminode tridentate at apex. Distributed in China (Hainan), Indochina and southeastern Thailand, in shaded evergreen forest, near to streams, 600-700 m.

 

Newly released

 


Flora of Thailand Vol. 11 part 2

Araceae

 

 


Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) No. 40, November 2012


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plants illustration

 

Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum var. esquirolei
Paphiopedilum hirsutissimum var. esquirolei