Biology:Maillardia montana

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Maillardia montana
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Moraceae
Genus: Maillardia
Species:
M. montana
Binomial name
Maillardia montana
Leandri[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Maillardia pendula Maillardia mandrarensis
  • Leandri, nom. provis. Leandri
  • Fosberg Trophis montana
  • Maillardia orientalis (Leandri) C.C.Berg
  • Maillardia occidentalis Leandri , nom. provis.

Maillardia montana, synonyms including Maillardia pendula, is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae, native to Mayotte, the Aldabras, and Madagascar in the western Indian Ocean.[1] It was first described by Jacques Désiré Leandri in 1948.[2]

Conservation

Maillardia pendula was assessed as "critically endangered" in the 1998 IUCN Red List, where it is said to be native only to the island of Grande Terre in the Aldabras.[3] (As of February 2023), M. pendula was regarded as a synonym of Maillardia montana, which has a wider distribution, including Madagascar.[1]

References

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