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n. - Tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas.

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  • Ardisia fol. obovatis, umbellis Briedelia. nutanti-pendulis, on the hills.
  • The closed canopy layer (with a height of about 15 m) is dominated by Ardisia sieboldii.
  • Sites sampled in the past included the following plentiful or notable species: at 250 m, Garcinia intermedia, Pouteria sp. and Schizolobium parahybum; at 450 m, Ardisia...
  • It will live upon boiled rice and padi; but its favourite food, when wild, is the berry of the rumpunnei (Ardisia coriacea), perhaps from this circumstance so called.
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