Indomalayan realm

The Indomalayan realm, also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms, extending across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. It spreads across the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and through Indonesia as far as Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo, with its eastern limit marked by the Wallace Line, which separates it from the Australasian realm; it also includes the Philippines, lowland Taiwan, and Japan's Ryukyu Islands. The realm was originally dominated by tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest, with tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest predominant across much of India and parts of Southeast Asia. Its tropical forests are highly variable and diverse, containing economically important tree families such as Dipterocarpaceae, Ficus, and Fabaceae. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/