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unusual facts about Southern Asia



Myrmica elmesi

This zone where the species is distributed is a transitional zone between sub temperate and temperate Himalaya and geographically it penetrates in to the Palearctic zone (whose boundary in Southern Asia is largely altitudinal, where an altitude of 2000–2500 meters above mean sea level forms the boundary between Palearctic and Indo-Malayan ecozones).


see also

Borassus

Borassus flabellifer - Asian Palmyra palm/Lontar palm/Doub palm/Sea Coconut (southern Asia and southeast Asia)

Hypseleotris cyprinoides

Hypseleotris cyprinoides, the Tropical carp-gudgeon, is a species of sleeper goby found in fresh, brackish and marine coastal waters from Africa through southern Asia to the Pacific Islands.

Ibn Khordadbeh

Along with maps, the book also includes descriptions of the land, people and culture of the Southern Asian coast as far as Brahamputra, The Andaman Islands, peninsular Malaysia and Java.

Impatiens balsamina

Impatiens balsamina (garden balsam, garden jewelweed, rose balsam, touch-me-not) is a species of Impatiens native to southern Asia in India and Burma.

Indian mulberry

Morinda tinctoria, native to southern Asia and cultivated as a dye source

Nyctanthes arbor-tristis

Nyctanthes arbor-tristis (Night-flowering Jasmine) is a species of Nyctanthes, native to southern Asia, from northern Pakistan, and Nepal south through northern India, Bangladesh and southeast to Thailand.

P. ovata

Plantago ovata (also Psyllium ovata), the desert indianwheat, a medicinal plant species native to Western Asia and Southern Asia

Polydesma umbricola

It is found in Southern Europe, Africa, minor Asia to Southern Asia, including many Indian Ocean islands, like Coëtivy Island, Aldabra, Assumption Island, Madagascar and on Hawaii.

United States Ambassador to Laos

The Embassy has been mainly concerned of the outspead of the Bird Flu, which has been reported in many parts of Southern Asia.

V. album

Viscum album, the European mistletoe or common mistletoe, a plant species native to Europe and western and southern Asia

Wax plant

Hoya, a tropical climbing plants genus in the family Apocynaceae native to southern Asia, Australia and Polynesia