Mount Murud
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| Mount Murud | |
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Vegetation near the summit of Mount Murud
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| Geography | |
| Location | Sarawak, Borneo |
| Parent range | Kelabit Highlands |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 1922 by Eric Mjöberg[1] |
Mount Murud or Muru (Malay: Gunung Murud) is a sandstone mountain located in the Malaysian part of Borneo. At 2,423 m (7,946 ft), it is the highest mountain in the state of Sarawak.[2][3]
The tropical pitcher plant species Nepenthes murudensis is named after the mountain and is thought to be endemic to its summit area.[4][5]
Mount Murud is included within Pulong Tau National Park.
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- ↑ Mjöberg, E. 1925. An Expedition to the Kalabit Country and Mt. Murud, Sarawak. Geographical Review 15(3): 411–427. doi:10.2307/208563
- ↑ Beaman, J. H., and C. Anderson. 1997. The summit flora of Mt. Murud, Sarawak, Malaysia. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 21: 85-141.
- ↑ Beaman, J.H. 1999. Preliminary Enumeration Of The Summit Flora, Mount Murud, Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak. PDF (99.4 KiB) ASEAN Review of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation: 1–23.
- ↑ Jebb, M.H.P. & M.R. Cheek 1997. A skeletal revision of Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae). Blumea 42(1): 1–106.
- ↑ De Witte, J. 1996. Nepenthes of Gunung Murud. PDF (567 KiB) Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 25(2): 41–45.
