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Garden Edinburgh, Singapore Botanic Gardens and the Forest Herbarium Bangkok for other 
help. This study was funded by the Sibbald Trust of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (UK), 
the Garden City Fund (Singapore), the Carlsberg Foundation (Denmark) and the National Parks 
Board (Singapore). 
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