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Comoros Forests
The Comoros forests is a terrestrial ecoregion which covers the Comoro Islands, which lie in the Mozambique Channel between Madagascar and East Africa. These include four main islands: Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli, of the Union of the Comoros, and Mayotte, a department and region of France. These volcanic islands are rich in wildlife with endemic species including four endangered bird species living on Mount Karthala, the large active volcano on Grande Comore. Geography The Comoro Islands are volcanic in origin. Mayotte is the easternmost and oldest of the islands, more than 8 million years old. It has one central island, known as Grande-Terre or Maore (368 km2), and several smaller islets. The highest point on Mayotte is Mount Benara at 660 meters elevation. Grande Terre has a deeply indented coast with many bays, peninsulas, and rocky headlands, and is home to most of the Comoro Islands' mangroves. Mayotte is surrounded by a large lagoon, which is enclosed by an exten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grande Comore
Grande Comore () is an island in Comoros off the coast of Africa. It is the largest island in the Comoros nation. Most of its population is of the Comorian ethnic group. Its population is about 316,600. The island's capital is Moroni, which is also the national capital. The island is made up of two shield volcanoes, with Mount Karthala being the country's highest point at above sea level. According to the 2009 revision of the constitution of 2002, it is governed by an elected Governor, as are the other islands, with the federal government being much reduced in power. The name Ngazidja is sometimes seen in the now nonstandard form Njazidja. History For several centuries, Grande Comore was divided into a number of sultanates, including Bambao, Itsandra, Mitsamihuli, Mbajini, Hambuu, Washili, Hamahame, Mbwankuu, Mbude and Domba. The sultans were also known as ''mfaume''. In 1886, the ruler of Anjouan, Sultan Said Ali bin Said Omar declared a "state of Ngazidja", usurping t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhizophora Mucronata
''Rhizophora mucronata'' (loop-root mangrove, red mangrove or Asiatic mangrove) is a species of mangrove found on coasts and river banks in East Africa and the Indo-Pacific region. Description ''Rhizophora mucronata'' is a small to medium size evergreen tree growing to a height of about on the banks of rivers. On the fringes of the sea is a more typical height. The tallest trees are closest to the water and shorter trees are further inland. The tree has a large number of aerial stilt roots buttressing the trunk. The leaves are elliptical and usually about long and wide. They have elongated tips but these often break off. There are corky warts on the pale undersides of the leaves. The flowers develop in axillary clusters on the twigs. Each has a hard cream-coloured calyx with four sepals and four white, hairy petals. The seeds are viviparous and start to develop whilst still attached to the tree. The root begins to elongate and may reach a length of a metre (yard) or more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festuca
''Festuca'' (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of and a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on every continent except Antarctica. The genus is closely related to ryegrass (''Lolium''), and recent evidence from phylogenetic studies using DNA sequencing of plant mitochondrial DNA shows that the genus lacks monophyly. As a result, plant taxonomists have moved several species, including the forage grasses tall fescue and meadow fescue, from the genus ''Festuca'' into the genus ''Lolium'', or alternatively into the segregate genus '' Schedonorus''. Because the taxonomy is complex, scientists have not determined how many true species belong to the genus, but estimates range from more than 400 to over 640.Darbyshire, S. J. and L. E. Pavlick''Festuca''. Grass Manual. Flora of North America. Fescue pollen is a significant contributor to hay fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agrostis
''Agrostis'' (bent or bentgrass) is a large and very nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family, found in nearly all the countries in the world. It has been bred as a GMO creeping bent grass. Species * ''Agrostis aequivalvi'' (Arctic bent) * ''Agrostis agrostiflora'' * '' Agrostis alpina'' * ''Agrostis ambatoensis'' * ''Agrostis × amurensis'' * ''Agrostis anadyrensis'' * ''Agrostis angrenica'' * ''Agrostis arvensis'' * ''Agrostis atlantica'' * '' Agrostis australiensis'' * ''Agrostis bacillata'' * ''Agrostis balansae'' * ''Agrostis barceloi'' * ''Agrostis basalis'' * '' Agrostis bergiana'' * ''Agrostis bettyae'' * ''Agrostis × bjoerkmannii'' * ''Agrostis blasdalei'' * ''Agrostis boliviana'' * ''Agrostis boormanii'' * ''Agrostis bourgaei'' * ''Agrostis boyacensis'' * ''Agrostis brachiata'' * ''Agrostis brachyathera'' * ''Agrostis breviculmis'' * '' Agrostis burmanica'' * ''Agrostis calderoniae'' * ''Agrostis canina'' (velvet bent) * ''Agros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erica Comorensis
''Erica comorensis'' is a species of flowering plant (angiosperms) in the heather family (Ericaceae). It is endemic to the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean. It grows from .5 to 2 meters high. Leuschner, Christoph (1996). "Timberline and Alpine Vegetation on the Tropical and Warm-Temperate Oceanic Islands of the World: Elevation, Structure and Floristics". ''Vegetatio'', Vol. 123, No. 2 (Apr., 1996), pp. 193-206. Accessed 11 August 2021. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20048667 ''Erica comorensis'' is found at high elevations on Grand Comore, where it is the predominant species in the dry ericaceous scrubland from 1800 to 2200 meters elevation. There is one recognized subspecies, ''Erica comorensis'' subsp. ''anjurensis'' (Alm & T.C.E.Fr.) Dorr & E.G.H.Oliv.., which is found on the island of Anjouan Anjouan (; also known as Ndzuwani or Nzwani, and historically as Johanna or Hinzuan) is an autonomous high island in the Indian Ocean that forms part of the Union of the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filicium Decipiens
''Filicium decipiens'', called the ferntree, fern tree or fern leaf tree, is a species of '' Filicium'' found in east Africa, Madagascar, India and Sri Lanka. It is planted as an ornamental tree in the Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Hawaii, and elsewhere. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q13112934 decipiens Ornamental trees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Africana
''Prunus africana'', the African cherry, has a wide distribution in Africa, occurring in montane regions of central and southern Africa and on the islands of Bioko, São-Tomé, Grande Comore, and Madagascar. It can be found at above sea level. It is a canopy tree 30–40 m in height, and is the tallest member of ''Prunus''. Large-diameter trees have impressive, spreading crowns. It requires a moist climate, annual rainfall, and is moderately frost-tolerant. Previewable Google Books. ''P. africana'' appears to be a light-demanding, secondary-forest species. The bark is black to brown, corrugated or fissured, and scaly, fissuring in a characteristic rectangular pattern. The leaves are alternate, simple, long, elliptical, bluntly or acutely pointed, glabrous, and dark green above, pale green below, with mildly serrated margins. A central vein is depressed on top, prominent on the bottom. The petiole is pink or red. The flowers are androgynous, 10-20 stamens, insect-pollinated, , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gambeya Boiviniana
''Gambeya boiviniana'', commonly known as ''famelona'', is species of evergreen tree native to Madagascar and the Comoro Islands The Comoro Islands or Comoros (Shikomori ''Komori''; ar, جزر القمر , ''Juzur al-qamar''; french: Les Comores) form an archipelago of volcanic islands situated off the southeastern coast of Africa, to the east of Mozambique and northwes .... Range and habitat ''Gambeya boiviniana'' ranges through eastern, northern, and northwestern Madagascar and the Comoro Islands, between sea level and 1,750 meters elevation. It is native to the lowland rain forests of eastern Madagascar, the humid montane forests of Madagascar's Central Highlands, the montane forests of Montagne d'Ambre on Madagascar's northern tip, and the subhumid lowland forests of the Sambirano region in northwestern Madagascar. It is also found in the Comoros. References {{taxonbar, from = Q81735516 Chrysophylloideae Trees of Madagascar Flora of the Comoros Flora of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olea Capensis
''Olea capensis'', the black ironwood, is an African tree species in the olive family Oleaceae. It is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa: from the east in Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan, south to the tip of South Africa, and west to Cameroon, Sierra Leone and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea, as well as Madagascar and the Comoros. It occurs in bush, littoral scrub and evergreen forest. Other common names in English include ironwood, ironwood olive, East African olive and Elgon olive. Description The black ironwood is a bushy shrub, or a small to medium-sized tree, up to in height, occasionally reaching . *Bark: light grey, becoming dark grey and vertically fissured with age; a characteristic blackish gum is exuded from bark wounds. *Leaves: light to dark green and glossy above and paler green below; petiole often purplish, 0.3–1.7 cm long; lanceolate-oblong to almost circular, 3–10 x 1.5–5 cm. *Flowers: white or cream and sweetly scented, small and in many flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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