The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth-longest river and the third-longest in Asia with an estimated length of 4,909 km (3,050 mi) and a drainage area of 795,000 km2 (307,000 sq mi), discharging 475 km3 (114 cu mi) of water annually. From its headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau, the river runs through Southwest China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and southern Vietnam. The extreme seasonal variations in flow and the presence of rapids and waterfalls in the Mekong make navigation difficult. Even so, the river is a major trade route between Tibet and Southeast Asia. The construction of hydroelectric dams along the Mekong in the 2000s through the 2020s causes serious problems for the river's ecosystem, including the exacerbation of drought.
Cymbopogon, also known as lemongrass, barbed wire grass, silky heads, oily heads, Cochin grass, Malabar grass, citronella grass or fever grass, is a genus of Asian, African, Australian, and tropical island plants in the grass family. Some species are commonly cultivated as culinary and medicinal herbs because of their scent, resembling that of lemons . The name cymbopogon derives from the Greek words kymbe and pogon "which mean [that] in most species, the hairy spikelets project from boat-shaped spathes." Lemongrass and its oil are believed to possess therapeutic properties.
Pseudocalotes is a genus of lizards in the family Agamidae. The genus is endemic to Southeast Asia.
Dendrocalamus is a tropical Asian genus of giant clumping bamboos in the grass family. It is found in the Indian subcontinent, China, and Southeast Asia.
Antidesma is a genus of tropical plant in the family Phyllanthaceae formally described by Linnaeus in 1753. It is native to tropical Africa, S + E + SE Asia, Australia, and various oceanic islands. The greatest diversity occurs in Southeast Asia.
Mallotus is a genus of the spurge family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1790. Two species are found in tropical Africa and Madagascar. All the other species are found in East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, eastern Australia, and certain islands of the western Pacific. The genus has about 150 species of dioecious trees or shrubs.
Typhonium is a genus in the family Araceae native to eastern and southern Asia, New Guinea, and Australia. It is most often found growing in wooded areas.
- Typhonium acetosellaGagnep. - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
- Typhonium adnatumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium albidinerviumC.Z.Tang & H.Li - Guangdong, Hainan, Laos, Thailand
- Typhonium albispathumBogner - Thailand
- Typhonium alismifoliumF.Muell. - Queensland, Northern Territory
- Typhonium angustilobumF.Muell. - Queensland, New Guinea
- Typhonium bachmaenseV.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Vietnam
- Typhonium baoshanenseZ.L.Dao & H.Li - Yunnan
- Typhonium blumeiNicolson & Sivad. - Japan, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, much of China, Bangladesh, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam; naturalized in Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, Borneo, Philippines, West Indies
- Typhonium bognerianumJ.Murata & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium browniiSchott - Queensland, New South Wales
- Typhonium bulbiferumDalzell - southern India
- Typhonium circinnatumHett. & J.Mood - Vietnam
- Typhonium cochleareA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium cordifoliumS.Y.Hu - Thailand
- Typhonium digitatumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium echinulatumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium eliosurum(F.Muell. ex Benth.) O.D.Evans - New South Wales
- Typhonium filiformeRidl. - Thailand, Malaysia
- Typhonium flagelliforme(G.Lodd.) Blume - Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, New Guinea, Queensland, Northern Territory
- Typhonium fultumRidl. - Thailand, Malaysia
- Typhonium gagnepainiiJ.Murata & Sookch. - Thailand, Cambodia
- Typhonium gallowayiHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium glaucumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium griseumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium hayataeSriboonma & J.Murata - Vietnam
- Typhonium huenseNguyen & Croat - Vietnam
- Typhonium hunanenseH.Li & Z.Q.Liu - Hunan
- Typhonium inopinatumPrain - India, Myanmar, Thailand
- Typhonium jinpingenseZ.L.Wang, H.Li & F.H.Bian - Yunnan
- Typhonium johnsonianumA.Hay & S.M.Taylor - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium jonesiiA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium laoticumGagnep. - Thailand, Laos
- Typhonium liliifoliumF.Muell. ex Schott - Northern Territory, Western Australia
- Typhonium lineareHett. & V.D.Nguyen - Vietnam
- Typhonium listeriPrain - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar
- Typhonium medusaeHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium mirabile(A.Hay) A.Hay - Melville Island of Australia
- Typhonium neogracileJ.Murata - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar
- Typhonium nudibaccatumA.Hay - Western Australia
- Typhonium orbifoliumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium pedatisectumGage - Myanmar
- Typhonium pedunculatumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium peltandroidesA.Hay, M.D.Barrett & R.L.Barrett - Western Australia
- Typhonium penicillatumV.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Vietnam
- Typhonium pottingeriPrain - Myanmar
- Typhonium praecoxJ.Murata - Myanmar
- Typhonium praetermissumA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium pusillumSookch., V.D.Nguyen & Hett. - Thailand
- Typhonium reflexumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium roxburghiiSchott - Taiwan, Yunnan, Bonin Islands, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, Thailand, Malaysia, western Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea; naturalized in Western Australia, eastern Brazil, Tanzania
- Typhonium russell-smithiiA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium sagittariifoliumGagnep. - Thailand
- Typhonium saraburiensisSookch., Hett. & J.Murata - Thailand
- Typhonium sinhabaedyaeHett. & A.Galloway - Thailand
- Typhonium smitinandiiSookch. & J.Murata - Thailand
- Typhonium stigmatilobatumV.D.Nguyen - Vietnam
- Typhonium subglobosumHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium tayloriiA.Hay - Northern Territory of Australia
- Typhonium trifoliatumF.T.Wang & H.S.Lo ex H.Li, Y.Shiao & S.L.Tseng - Mongolia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi
- Typhonium trilobatum(L.) Schott - southern China, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina; naturalized in Windward Islands, Ivory Coast, Borneo, Philippines
- Typhonium tubispathumHett. & A.Galloway - Thailand
- Typhonium variansHett. & Sookch. - Thailand
- Typhonium vermiformeV.D.Nguyen & Croat - Vietnam
- Typhonium violifoliumGagnep. - Myanmar, Thailand
- Typhonium watanabeiJ.Murata, Sookch. & Hett. - Thailand
- Typhonium weipanumA.Hay - Queensland
- Typhonium wilbertiiA.Hay - Queensland
Trigonostemon is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae and the sole member of its tribe (Trigonostemoneae). It was first described as a genus in 1826. It is native to Southeast Asia, southern China, the Indian Subcontinent, Queensland, and a few islands in the western Pacific.
Breynia is a plant genus in the family Phyllanthaceae, first described in 1776. It is native to Southeast Asia, China, the Indian Subcontinent, Papuasia, Australia, and the island of Réunion.
Red-cheeked squirrels are species of squirrels in the genus Dremomys in the subfamily Callosciurinae. The six species which are all found only in Asia are listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN.
Phoebe is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae. There are 75 accepted species in the genus, distributed in tropical and subtropical Asia and New Guinea. 35 species occur in China, of which 27 are endemic. The first description of the genus was of the type species P. lanceolata made in 1836 by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in Systema Laurinarum, p. 98.
The Himalayan field rat, sometimes known as the white-footed Indo-Chinese rat, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It has a wide range, being found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, with introduced populations in Indonesia (widely), Palau, and the Philippines. A common species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern".
The mountain bulbul is a songbird species in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is often placed in Hypsipetes, but seems to be closer to the type species of the genus Ixos, the Sunda bulbul. It is found in Southeast Asia and is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN. It is named after British East India Company Surgeon John McClelland.
The wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat is a species of bat in the family Molossidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
Halpe is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Scobura is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
The Southwestern Tai or Thailanguages are a branch of the Tai languages of Southeast Asia. Its languages include Central Thai (Siamese), Northern Thai (Lanna), Lao, Shan and others.
Elsholtzia is a plant genus in the Lamiaceae. It is widespread across much of temperate and tropical Asia from Siberia south to China, Northeastern India, Indonesia, etc. The genus was named in honour of the Prussian naturalist Johann Sigismund Elsholtz.
- Elsholtzia amurensisProb. - Amur region of Russia
- Elsholtzia angustifolia(Loes.) Kitag. - Korea, Manchuria
- Elsholtzia argyiH.Lév. - southern China, Vietnam
- Elsholtzia beddomeiC.B.Clarke ex Hook.f. - Myanmar, Thailand
- Elsholtzia blanda(Benth.) Benth. - southern China, Himalayas, Indochina, Sumatra, Viet Nam
- Elsholtzia bodinieriVaniot - Guizhou, Yunnan
- Elsholtzia byeonsanensisM.Kim - South Korea
- Elsholtzia capituligeraC.Y.Wu - Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan
- Elsholtzia cephalanthaHand.-Mazz. - Sichuan
- Elsholtzia ciliata(Thunb.) Hyl. - widespread across Siberia, Russian Far East, China, India, Himalayas, Japan, Korea, Indochina
- Elsholtzia communis(Collett & Hemsl.) Diels - Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Elsholtzia concinnaVautier - Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan
- Elsholtzia cyprianii(Pavol.) C.Y.Wu & S.Chow - central + southern China
- Elsholtzia densaBenth. - India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Tibet, Xinjiang, China, Mongolia
- Elsholtzia eriocalyxC.Y.Wu & S.C.Huang - southern China
- Elsholtzia eriostachya(Benth.) Benth. - China, Tibet, Himalayas
- Elsholtzia feddeiH.Lév - China, Tibet
- Elsholtzia flavaBenth. - China, Himalayas
- Elsholtzia fruticosa(D.Don) Rehder - China, Himalayas, Tibet, Myanmar
- Elsholtzia glabraC.Y.Wu & S.C.Huang - China
- Elsholtzia griffithiiHook.f - Myanmar, Assam
- Elsholtzia hallasanensisY.N.Lee - Jeju-do Island in Korea
- Elsholtzia heterophyllaDiels - Yunnan, Myanmar
- Elsholtzia hunanensisHand.-Mazz. - southern China
- Elsholtzia kachinensisPrain - southern China, Myanmar, Thailand
- Elsholtzia litangensisC.X.Pu & W.Y.Chen - Sichuan
- Elsholtzia luteolaDiels - Sichuan, Yunnan
- Elsholtzia minimaNakai - Jeju-do Island in Korea
- Elsholtzia myosurusDunn - Sichuan, Yunnan
- Elsholtzia nipponicaOhwi - Japan
- Elsholtzia ochroleucaDunn - Sichuan, Yunnan
- Elsholtzia oldhamiiHemsl. - Taiwan
- Elsholtzia pendulifloraW.W.Sm - Yunnan, Thailand, Vietnam
- Elsholtzia pilosa(Benth.) Benth. - China, Himalayas, Myanmar, Vietnam
- Elsholtzia pubescensBenth. - Java, Bali, Lombok, Timor, Sulawesi
- Elsholtzia pygmaeaW.W.Sm. - Yunnan
- Elsholtzia rugulosaHemsl - southern China, Myanmar, Thailand
- Elsholtzia serotinaKom - northern China, Japan, Korea, Primorye
- Elsholtzia soulieiH.Lév. - Sichuan, Yunnan
- Elsholtzia splendensNakai ex F.Maek. - China, Korea
- Elsholtzia stachyodes(Link) Raizada & H.O.Saxena - Indian Subcontinent, China, Myanmar
- Elsholtzia stauntoniiBenth. - northern China
- Elsholtzia strobilifera(Benth.) Benth. - China, Himalayas, Myanmar
- Elsholtzia winitianaCraib - Yunnan, Guangxi, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
