Plants

Borneo as a whole is conservatively estimated to contain 15,000 plant species, and may well have the highest plant diversity of any region on Earth.

In Lambir Hills National Park, in Sarawak, 1,175 species were recorded in a 52-hectare plot, the highest documented tree diversity in the world.

There are about 3,000 species of trees, more than 2,000 species of orchids (some of the most beautiful being the rarest and most endangered) and more than 50 carnivorous pitcher plants, as well as both claimants for the title of the largest flower in the world � the Rafflesia and the Amorphallus.

On Borneo, a 6.5 hectare forest may have over 700 species of trees, by far dwarfing 50 in northern Europe or 171 in eastern North America in the same area.