New peat swamp tree species discovered by researchers in Singapore and Indonesia
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NUS research assistant Agusti Randi poses with an infructesence (a bunch of immature fruits) from the newly discovered species.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF AGUSTI RANDI
SINGAPORE - A new tree species has been discovered in the peat swamp forests of Indonesia by two scientists based in Singapore and their Indonesian colleague.
Their discovery of Disepalum rawagambut marks the first new discovery of a tree in a peat swamp habitat in almost 60 years. The last peat swamp forest tree discovered was the Shorea retusa, which was also found in Indonesia back in 1963.
