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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. We are very grateful to the staff of the Kuala Belalong F ield Studies 
Centre and the Brunei National Herbarium for their service and support. We are indebted to 
Salwana Jaafar, Hazimah Din and a group of Universiti Brunei Darussalam students for field 
assistance and logistical arrangements. We also thank Radim Hedl, Marketa Chudomelova, 
Michal Sochor, Lucie Kobrlova and Ondrej Popelka for their field assistance. We thank 
Universiti Brunei Darussalam and the Brunei Forestry Department for permission to conduct 
research at KBFSC and in the Ulu Temburong National Park respectively, and the Biodiversity 
Research and Innovation Centre (BioRIC) for granting our export permit. Researchers from 
Palacky University were supported by project no. CZ. 1.07/2.2.00/28.0149. 
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