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The grasslands of the Terai in Nepal are among the tallest in the world, and are maintained by silt deposited by the yearly monsoon floods. Important grasses include baruwa ( Tripidium bengalense ) and kans grass ( Saccharum spontaneum ), which quickly establishes itself after the retreat of the monsoon waters.
The monsoon rain forest ecoregion encompasses the interior mountain range, surrounded by the coastal plains. (The coastal plains fall in an entirely different ecoregion - the South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests ecoregion). The highest point in the Hainan mountains is Wuzhi Mountain at 1,840 metres (6,040 ft). There is a small ...
Seasonal (mixed) tropical forests can be found in many parts of the tropical zone, with examples found in: In the Asia-Pacific region: seasonal forests predominate across large areas of the Eastern Java, Wallacea, Indian subcontinent and Indochina. Eastern Java monsoon forests; Wallacea Forest; Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
It is native to low-elevation tropical monsoon forests of south east India. [3] [1] Some common names in English include rosewood, Bombay blackwood, roseta rosewood, East Indian rosewood, reddish-brown rosewood, Indian palisandre, and Java palisandre. [3] [1] Its Indian common names are beete, and satisal or sitsal. [3]
This category contains articles related to the native flora of tropical Asia. For the purposes of this category, "tropical Asia" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), which calls it Asia-Tropical, namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". It includes the following regions:
Tropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands [10] are spread over a large area of the tropics with a vegetation made up mainly of low shrubs and grasses, often including sclerophyll species. [10] Some of the most representative are the Western Zambezian grasslands in Zambia and Angola , as well as the Einasleigh upland savanna in Australia and ...
The forests are mostly made up of evergreen trees, or semi-evergreen trees which drop some of their leaves during the dry season. Dipterocarps are the predominant trees, and common dipterocarps include Dipterocarpus alatus, D. turbinatus, D. obtusifolius, Anisoptera glabra, Hopea odorata, and Parashorea stellata.
extent of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands. Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands is a terrestrial biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. [1] The biome is dominated by grass and/or shrubs located in semi-arid to semi-humid climate regions of subtropical and tropical latitudes ...