Wednesday 31 July 2013

Cuckoo is calling -video taken using Nikon D7100

Rivers are my playground (July 2013)









Bucephalandra below which I used to call it as Bucep. motleyana by mistake, now I found out it will/may be called as Bucep. akantha. (scientific paper of this species is not yet published)







Tuesday 30 July 2013

Rejang river basin (part 4)






Schismatoglottis sp.


Bucephalandra pygmaea

Schismatoglottis roseospatha

New species of Piptospatha

Monday 29 July 2013

The river of aquatic fern & mosses (part 2)







Begonia sp.




Melastoma sp.

 Java ferns in Sarawak got very narrow leaf (Colysis pteropus) Note: Genus name has changed from Microsorum to Colysis.


Melastoma sp.

Schottarum sarikeense


Melastoma sp.


Ooia grabowskii



Mosses

Saturday 27 July 2013

Borneo: Paradise Under Siege (A talk by Nat. Geo. photographer about Borneo)

The river of aquatic fern & mosses (part 1)



This is my very first time to see this clump of Microsorum (aquatic fern) grow permanently under the water in a remote area of southern Sarawak!


Aquatic mosses.


Melastoma

New Begonia



Another species of Begonia.