''Agrostistachys borneensis'' is a species of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
in the family
Euphorbiaceae. It is a widespread plant native to much of
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...
as well as
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
,
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
, and
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu
Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea).
It is a simplified version of ...
.
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Culture
Known as බෙරු (beru) in Sinhala.
References
External links
* http://iucnredlist.org/details/32582/0
* http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-4807
* http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-4805
* https://www.gbif.org/species/3063606
* http://www.biotik.org/india/species/a/agroborn/agroborn_en.html
Agrostistachydeae
Flora of tropical Asia
Plants described in 1904
Taxa named by Odoardo Beccari
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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