Endemic to Malaya (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 2 occurrences across 2 countries.
Location
Singapore, Singapore (Singapore Botanic Gardens)
Location Remarks
Address is 1 Cluny Road, where the Visitor Center is; the garden stretches between Holland Road and Bukit Timah Road (100 Cluny Park Road).
Collectors
No collectors specified
Location
Malaysia, Sabah (Kota Kinabatangan)
5.671105, 118.391654
Location Remarks
Coordinates are the median GPS position of 40 specimen photograph(s) taken 2012-04-13 (90% of them within NaN km of it). Split from the legacy location "Beaufort" (681cfa54-e336-390d-b078-0f7211d55b7b) or "Kuching" (9135d8cb-aef2-388f-8be6-5bc86bb71097), which carried events from many places; not otherwise described.
Collectors
Sven Buerki, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Postar Miun, Jeisin Jumian, Nur Adillah binti Mohd
Notes
Freshwater aquatic. Plants 1.3-1.5 m tall incl. inflorescence. Young fruits.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Commelinales
Family
Hanguanaceae
Genus
Hanguana
Specific Epithet
malayana
Authorship
(Jack) Merr.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 7.2
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
0.3
Global rank
#143,832 of 335,497
Top 43%
Extinction probability
6%