TABLE 
Orographic boundaries in the Mala^ian-Papuan mountainflora, (fixed after tge method of SENDTNER) 
(jp-i ■ : r thS ' # r ) 
Altitude 
in m. 
Lowest Highest Totals, 
limits i limits * 
(mining) (maxim.) 
■f*-r - 
1 - t 
1 
4 
¥ - 
1 
5 
5 - 500 
500— 1000 
1000 
1100 
1S00 
1300 
1400’ 
1500 
1600 
1700 
* 
1300 
1900 
2000 
2100 
2200 
2300 
2400 
2500 
2600 
2700 
2800 
2900 
3000 
3100 
3200 
3300 
3400 
3500 
3600 
3700 
3800 
3900 
4000 
4100 
4200 
4300 
4400 
4500 
4600 
4700 
29 
8 
12 
9 
0 
21 
34 
5 
18 
7 
2 
25 
9 
7 
1 
4 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
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> COLLINE ZONE 
- 
114 
20 
134 ^ 
13 
11 
24 
44 
11 
55 j 
Closed highstemmed 
33 
16 
49 
V 
1 forest poor in moss 
48 
13 
61 
61 
39 
100 
25 
11 
36 ^ 
34 
19 
53 
Closed highstemmed 
40 
24 
64 
forest above 2000 m 
16 
9 
25 1 
alt,, with decreasing 
45 
32 
77 1 
stemdlameter and in¬ 
ter easing quantity of 
I 
21 
29 
50 
10 
22 
32 
I moss 
11 
16 
27 
• 
38 
82 
120 
a a 
** V 
30 
38 
25 
6 
46 
Dense mossy forest 
with single higher 
trees 
19 
14 
52 
5 FORESTLIMIT 
Rather open low,very 
crooked thicket. 
- - -> TREELIMIT 
4 
6 
13 
27 
22 
22 
46 
Low shrubs isolated 
or in clumps 
. $ $ ti - 
Low-land~zone 
\ 
: 
Submontane zone 
Highstemmed 
closed forest 
4 
/ 
Montane zone 
'l 
\ 
l 
Subalpine zone 
Low;shrubby 
forest and 
thicket 
J 
\ 
> SHRUBLIMIT 
Grasses, sedges , herbs 
50 
Alpine zone 
Open vegetation 
0 
1 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
St one-desert with mosses, 
lichens and algae, few 
Phanerogams,mainly gras¬ 
ses . 
ETERNAL SNOW 
i 
Nival zone 
U-l 
KAaA i( a. So 
W. to iLx 3(J <drh-h> Sled ^ n a*V^o as.c ft L^. 
87-1/z 
\ 
forest 
\ ^ 
I \ 
A 
Open vegetation 
y 
! % 
