HANGUANA NEGLECTA
• Small primary forest herb with black berries
native to Singapore and extending to Johor,
Peninsular Malaysia
• Considered Critically Endangered (IUCN
Red List)
• Currently, only a single population is known
in Singapore in the Bukit Timah Nature
Reserve
2. ZINGIBER SINGAPURENSE
• Ginger species native/endemic to Singapore
• Considered Critically Endangered
(IUCN Red List)
• In 2013, the ginger (3 populations) was
found within patches of primary and mature
secondary forest in the Central Catchment
Nature Reserve. Flowering plants were found
in May 2014
3. SCOLOPIA MACROPHYLLA
• Native to Singapore – only the single tree at Coney Island
is currently known
• The only species of Scolopia tree that occurs in Singapore
• Species ranges from Indochina, Southern Thailand,
Peninsula Malaya and Borneo to Java
4. BROMHEADIA ALTICOLA
• Rediscovered by NParks staff in the Mandai forest in 2011 after
an intense storm
• Singapore’s native orchid species number fewer than 230, with
more than 75 percent of these listed in the Singapore Red Data
Book as Nationally Extinct (not recorded in Singapore’s forests
for more than 30 years) – one of these is the Bromheadia
alticola
5. DISCHIDIA HIRSUTA
• Thought to be extinct, as the species was
last collected from Singapore in 1903 from
the Woodlands area
