ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We are very grateful to the Leverhulme Trust who provided the funding for the work presented in this website.

We thank the staff of the Forest Herbarium Bangkok (BKF), the Bangkok Herbarium (BK), Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden (QBG) and Prince of Songkhla University Herbarium (PSU) for helping us with field work and herbarium work in Thailand. The logistics were expertly arranged by Somran Suddee, Piyakaset Suksathan, Thamarat Phutthai, Kitichate Sridith and Kongkanda Chayamarit. In particular we thank Kanokon Bunpha, Voradol Chamchumroon, Sahut Chantanaorrapint, Preecha Karaket, Umpika Kawatkul, Rumrada Meeboonya, Thamarat Phutthai, Jarearnsak Sae Wai, Sommanussa Saengrit, Ratsamee Simma, Somran Suddee, Piyakaset Suksathan, Naiyana Tetsana and Pramote Triboun for their assistance and company in the field.

We are particularly grateful to Preecha Karaket and Thamarat Phutthai, who took the majority of the photographs that are used in this website, and to Piyakaset Suksathan, Pramote Triboun, Jarearnsak Sae Wai, Jana Leong-Škorničková and Walaiporn Witsawachaiwat who provided many additional photographs.

We also thank Matt Taylor of the Centre for Biological Information Technology at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Roger Hyam of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for software support and customisation; and Martin Pullan and the ICT staff of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for helping to launch this website.

We thank the library staff of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for their frequent help in finding the often obscure literature we needed and the herbarium staff for their careful management of our collections and loans.

The Editors and contributors to Flora of Thailand, Flora Malesiana and the Flora of Peninsular Malaysia are gratefully acknowledged for permission to reproduce text and illustrations for many species.