Sayur-sayuran dan buah-buahan hutan di Sarawak

by frugivore on Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:36 pm

Wild fruits and vegetables in Sarawak by Voon, Boon Hoe, Sim, CY and Chin, TH.
2nd ed.Published 1992 by Dept. of Agriculture, Sarawak,Kuching.

It is a disgrace.Most of the fruits and vegetables featured in it are not endemic to Sarawak but can be found in Peninsular Malaysia and in Indonesia as well.

The following is a partial list of certainly not endemic Borneo species listed in this book:
Rebong p.14
Arenga pinnata p.15
Nipa fruticans p.17
Nibong p.18
Melinjau - Gnetum gnemon p.25
Mengkudu - Morinda citrifolia p.34
Empaung - Baccaurea lancolata p.38
Kepayang - Pangium edule p.39
Jering - Archidendron jiringa p.42
Petai - Parkia speciosa p.41
Asam paya Eleiodoxa conferta p.46
Kechala (Torch ginger) - Etlingera elatior p.52
Pedada - Sonneratia caseolaris p.50
Binjai - Mangifera caesia p.59
Durio graveolens p.66
Durio oxleyanus p.68
Rukam - Flacourtia rukam p.76
Engkala p.78 - I personally found Litsea garciae in the jungles of Kelantan, Peninsular Malaysia.
Keranji - Dialium indum p.79
Jambu ara - Bellucia pentamera p.80 wrong scientific name + exotic from the American Tropics.
Artocarpus elasticus p.82
Artocarpus kemando - p.83
Artocarpus rigidus p.86
Serait - Nephelium maingayi p.93
Perah - Elateriospermum tapos p.97
Berangan - Castanopsis spp. p.99

Not only several of the scientific names are wrong but some of the illustrations are blunders as well.
On Page 64 the picture given as Kubal tabau is wrong! It is NOT Kubal tabau!!!
On page 95 the picture of Kasai (Pometia pinata) is mixed up with Ceri terengganu (Engkilili) -Lepisanthes alata !!!
Several of the other species are questionable and most of the photos are blurish and hard to identify!
It should have never been published!

Pictures of the blunders