Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

 An indigenous small palm widespread in the wet and dry lowlands up to 500 m elevations. Flowering in May and June. 

An indigenous rattan occurs in wet lowlands to lower montane forests below 1500m. Grows in moist places on well-drained slopes. Flowering...

Native palm of Bangladesh , Andaman islands and Malay peninsula. Cultivated as an ornamental in gardens. 

An endemic and endangered small tree occurs in swamp forests and valley bottoms from Kalutara to Galle in the southwestern wet lowlands ...

An endemic rattan occurs in forest understorey of southwestern wet lowlands below 1000 m altitude in Kalutara  and Galle districts. Flowe...

An endemic liana occurs in forest understorey and forest gaps from southwestern wet lowlands to lower montane forests below 1500 m. Flo...

An indigenous liana occurs in wet lowlands and lower montane forests below 1500m a.s.l. and in intermediate lowlands from the foothills o...

An endemic rattan climbing about 50-70 m height, occurs in wet lowlands and lower montane forests up to about 1500m a.s.l. Flowering in ...

Ran dothalu is a rare endemic palm confine to the  south-western rain forests from lowlands to hills (300 to 1500m a.s.l.). It can be f...

Common palm of home gardens in wet and intermediate zones of the island up to about 900m a.s.l. Also cultivated close to paddy fields and c...

Introduced from India in unknown period of the history and cultivated and naturally spreading in dry coastal areas of North, North, East a...

Leaves of Talipot palm tree have been using for writing since ancient times and it has a very restricted distribution (1) and it is alwa...

An endemic palm with ‘black compressed spined trunk’ unlike much common Kithul palm (Caryota urens) . It grows in wet lowland hilly area...

Native tree with 12-18 m high cylindrical stem of wet lowlands of south-west of the island up to 2000m elevation and Kurunagala, Badulla a...