Bukit Taviu Forest Reserve is a protected forest reserve in
Ranau District
The Ranau District ( ms, Daerah Ranau) is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah, part of the West Coast Division which includes the districts of Kota Belud, Kota Kinabalu, Papar, Penampang, Putatan, Ranau and Tuaran. The c ...
of
West Coast Division
West Coast Division ( ms, Bahagian Pantai Barat) is an administrative division of Sabah, Malaysia. It occupies the northwest portion of Sabah. With an area of 7,588 square kilometres, it occupies 10.3% of Sabah's territory. It also has approxim ...
, Sabah, Malaysia. It was designated as a Class 1 Protection Forest by the Sabah Forestry Department in 1992. Its area is . The reserve is hilly and lacks rivers. The forest is mixed dipterocarp.
Flora
Bukit Taviu Forest Reserve hosts threatened species such as ''
Anisoptera laevis
''Anisoptera laevis'' is a tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The specific epithet ''laevis'' means "smooth", referring to the leaves.
Description
''Anisoptera laevis'' grows as an emergent tree up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . ...
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Dipterocarpus acutangulus
''Dipterocarpus acutangulus'' is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The species name ''acutangulus'' is derived from Latin (''angulus'' = angle, ''acutus'' = sharp) and refers to the ribs of the fruit calyx tube. It is native to p ...
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Dipterocarpus applanatus
''Dipterocarpus applanatus'' is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is endemic to Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime ...
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Dipterocarpus humeratus
''Dipterocarpus humeratus'' is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The species name ''humeratus'' is derived from Latin (' = shoulder) and refers to the articulated petiole. ''D. humeratus'' is an emergent tree, up to 50 m t ...
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Dipterocarpus tempehes
''Dipterocarpus tempehes'' is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is endemic to Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Sout ...
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Shorea agamii
''Shorea agamii'' is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The species is named after J. Agama a one time forest officier in the Sabah Forestry Department. Two subspecies are recognised subsp. ''agamii'' and subsp ''diminuta''. The s ...
Adinandra
''Adinandra'' is a genus of plant in the family Pentaphylacaceae. It contains the following species:
# '' Adinandra acuminata'' Korth.
# '' Adinandra acuta'' Korth.
# '' Adinandra angulata'' Ridl.
# '' Adinandra angustifolia'' (S.H.Chun ex H.G.Y ...
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Clethra
''Clethra'' is a genus of flowering shrubs or small trees described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753.Dryobalanops'', '' Hopea'', ''
Lithocarpus
''Lithocarpus'' is a genus in the beech family, Fagaceae. Trees in this genus are commonly known as the stone oaks and differ from ''Quercus'' primarily because they produce insect-pollinated flowers on erect spikes and the female flowers have ...
Schizostachyum
''Schizostachyum'' is a tall or shrub-like tropical genus of bamboo. They are natives mostly of tropical Asia and Papuasia, with a few species in Madagascar and on certain islands in the Pacific. A few have become naturalized in other tropical ...
'' species.
Fauna
Bukit Taviu Forest Reserve is home to orangutans. An aerial survey in 2002–2003 recorded a population of 53 orangutans.