Vegetation of Southeast Asia Studies of Forest Types 1963-1965

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Figure 96.-Thorn forest in northeastern Thailand. This type usually
develops when the original vegetation is cleared for agx-iculture
and the land .later abandoned. Nakhon Phanom, close to the Mekong
River. Dec. 1963.
Figure 97--Thorn forest of small armed trees and shrubs, mixed with
bemboos, especially the slender Thyrsos tachys siamensis,' is widespread
in central Thailand. Kanchanaburi, western Thailand. Dec.
1963.
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