Northern Triangle subtropical forests
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The Northern Triangle subtropical forests cover remote, mountainous terrain in the far north of Myanmar, occupying much of Kachin State where the land rises from valley floors to peaks approaching 3,900 meters as an offshoot of the eastern Himalayas. The forests are overwhelmingly closed and evergreen: subtropical broadleaf stands at lower and middle elevations are dominated by trees of the Magnoliaceae, Lauraceae, and Dipterocarpaceae families, giving way higher up to oak and Fagaceae forests and a pine-oak association of Pinus kesiya with Quercus incana, Quercus serrata, and Quercus griffithii. The climate is an oceanic, subtropical highland variety (Koppen Cwb) with cool summers and cool but not cold winters, and relatively even temperatures and precipitation through the year. Because it sits at the crossroads of the Assam-Indian, Eastern Himalayan, Indo-Malayan, and Chinese floristic zones, the ecoregion is exceptionally biodiverse, supporting over 140 species of mammals and 370 species of birds, with the Burmese snub-nosed monkey as its flagship and large unfragmented tracts sheltering tiger, red panda, and Asian elephant. For gardeners, its native flora includes the rare slipper orchid Paphiopedilum wardii.
About the tropical & subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome
Warm, wet, highly productive forests — including tropical rainforests — with closed canopies, near year-round growing seasons, and the richest terrestrial biodiversity on Earth. Low seasonality and high rainfall sustain dense, layered vegetation from canopy to forest floor.
Collections for this ecoregion
No curated collection's plants all fit this ecoregion's zone range. We surface a collection only when every member would grow here — partial fits get filtered out rather than mislead. As the catalog and the curated set both grow, this section will fill in.