Photo shows the view upstream of the Belalong River from the landing steps of the Belalong Field Centre in Temburong, Brunei.
The photographs in the article are the first time that Ficus temburongensis has been photographed in the wild and only the second confirmed record for Borneo.
The photos were taken on 29.11.1996 at location (4.525070 115.154926) upstream of the Belalong Field Centre by Jean-Yves Rasplus Professor of Entomology at INRA – Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, FRANCE.
The figs look similar to the typical fig fruit on Ficus uncinata and grow on long stolons.However the leaves are symmetrical and grow in whorls at the end of bare twigs quite unlike other earth figs and more typical of Ficus cereicarpa and Ficus francisci both of which occur in the Temburong forests.
Ficus temburongensis is currently recorded from only two confirmed locations in Borneo both in Temburong, Brunei (1) Selapon near the Batu Apoi River and (2) Near the Belalong River upstream of the Belalong Field Center.
