Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

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...