Maliau basin

March 6, 2020

The Maliau basin is a bowl-like conservation area in central Sabah, Borneo. Surrounded by an escarpment reaching over 1600 meters it constitutes a single water catchment drained by the Maliau River.

View over the outer southern rim.
Similar to Begonia amphioxus but that is a begonia supposedly endemic to the limestone hills of Batu Punggul.
Same begonia as above.
Nepenthes stenophylla.
Nepenthes hirsuta & brave mosquito.
Possibly Begonia gueritziana.
Begonia sp.
Etlingera brevilabrum, ginger family.
The common houseplant Scindapsus pictus.
Small climber on large buttress roots.
Plagiostachys strobilifera, ginger family.
Jewel orchid.
Gesneriad?
Calathea sp.
Begonia on rock along the Agathis trail.
Peculiar fruit of a liana.
Agathis river.