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Melanophylla Alnifolia
''Melanophylla alnifolia'' is a species of plant in the Torricelliaceae family. It is endemic to eastern Madagascar. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland and montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. Description ''Melanophylla alnifolia'' is a large shrub or small tree, growing up to 10 meters tall. It flowers and fruits between November and May. Range and habitat ''Melanophylla alnifolia'' is widespread in the humid and subhumid regions of eastern Madagascar, from Kalambatritra in the south to Makirovana Tsihomanaomby and Manongarivo Massif in the north, in the former provinces of Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Fianarantsoa, Toamasina, and Toliara. The species' estimated extent of occurrence (EOO) is 153,444 km2, and the area of occupancy (AOO) is 140 km2. It inhabits humid lowland forests and mid-elevation montane forests between 341 and 1,710 meters elevation. It is also found in forest vestiges, lichen forest, river valleys, and on windswept ridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gilbert Baker
John Gilbert Baker (13 January 1834 – 16 August 1920) was an English botanist. His son was the botanist Edmund Gilbert Baker (1864–1949). Biography Baker was born in Guisborough in North Yorkshire, the son of John and Mary (née Gilbert) Baker, and died in Kew. He was educated at Quaker schools at Ackworth School and Bootham School, York. He then worked at the library and herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew between 1866 and 1899, and was keeper of the herbarium from 1890 to 1899. He wrote handbooks on many plant groups, including Amaryllidaceae, Bromeliaceae, Iridaceae, Liliaceae, and ferns. His published works includ''Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles''(1877) and ''Handbook of the Irideae'' (1892). He married Hannah Unthank in 1860. Their son Edmund was one of twins, and his twin brother died before 1887. John G. Baker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1878. He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1907. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambohitantely
Ambohitantely Special Reserve is a wildlife reserve of Madagascar. Geography This reserve is situated in Analamanga region, north-west of the town of Antananarivo in the district of Ankazobe. It covers of primary rainforests and of grassland savannah. It consists of several sections of the last primary rainforest, on the high plateau in central Madagascar, along with grasslands, caves and waterfalls, at an altitude of to . The mean annual rainfall is . The entrance to the reserve is on route 4, near the village of Arazana and the nearest hotel is at Ankazobe. The ethnic groups living in and around the reserve are the Betsileo, Betsimisaraka, and Merina peoples. Flora and fauna The main habitats of the reserve are primary rainforests and grassland savannah. The black-bark tree, Fanola (''Asteropeia amblyocarpa'') is registered as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List, and '' Schizolaena tampoketsana'' with its twisted fissured trunk is believed to have only 160–3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Least Concern Plants
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Melanophylla
''Melanophylla'' is a genus of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar. The genus contains seven species of small trees and shrubs. Under the APG II system this genus was placed alone in family Melanophyllaceae, but with the rider that " me of the families are monogeneric and could possibly be merged when well-supported sister-group relationships have been established." In 2004, such a relationship was established between ''Melanophylla'', ''Aralidium'' and ''Torricellia'', resulting in the transfer of the first two of these genera into Torricelliaceae. ;Species * '' Melanophylla alnifolia'' Baker * '' Melanophylla angustior'' McPherson & Rabenantoandro * '' Melanophylla aucubifolia'' Baker * '' Melanophylla crenata'' Baker A baker is a tradesperson who bakes and sometimes sells breads and other products made of flour by using an oven or other concentrated heat source. The place where a baker works is called a bakery. History Ancient history Since grains ha ... * '' Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic Flora Of Madagascar
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahamena
Zahamena National Park is a national park of Madagascar. Established in 1997, it covers an area of out of a total protected area of . It is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Rainforests of the Atsinanana, inscribed in 2007 and consisting of 13 specific areas located within eight national parks in the eastern part of Madagascar. In 2001, Bird Life International assessed avifauna of 112 species of which 67 species are exclusively endemic to Madagascar. The park is habitat for 112 bird species, 46 reptile species, 62 species of amphibians and 48 species of mammals, including 13 species of lemurs. The ethnic groups inhabiting the area are mostly Betsimisaraka and Sihanak. The most prominent faunal species in the park are: '' Indri indri'' (babakoto), a black lemur with white patches; the Madagascar red owl ''(Tyto soumagnei)'', locally known as vorondolomena; the katsatsaka (''Paroedura masobe''), a small gecko; the Madagascar serpent eagle (''Eutriorchis astur''), a threate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranomafana National Park
Ranomafana National Park is in the southeastern part of Madagascar in Haute Matsiatra and Vatovavy. With more than 41,600 hectares (161 square miles) of tropical rainforest, it is home to several rare species of flora and fauna including the golden bamboo lemur, the greater bamboo lemur, black and white ruffed lemur and Milne-Edwards sifaka, and over 130 species of frogs. Bird species including ground rollers, blue vangas, short-legged ground rollers and brown mesites can be seen. The park was established in 1991 with the purpose of conserving the unique biodiversity of the local ecosystem and reducing the human pressures on the protected area. It is part of the World Heritage Site Rainforests of the Atsinanana. Adjacent to the park is the Centre ValBio research station, established in 2003 and managed by Stony Brook University with a focus on biodiversity research, community health and education, environmental arts and reforestation. The place name comes from the Malagasy w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masoala
''Masoala'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It contains the following species, both endemic to Madagascar:Jumelle, Henri Lucien. 1933. Annales du Musée Colonial de Marseille, sér. 5, 1(1): 8. * ''Masoala kona'' Beentje * ''Masoala madagascariensis ''Masoala madagascariensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is found only in Madagascar. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by w ...'' Jum. References Endemic flora of Madagascar Arecaceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Areceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marojejy
Marojejy National Park () is a national park in the Sava region of northeastern Madagascar. It covers and is centered on the Marojejy Massif, a mountain chain that rises to an elevation of . Access to the area around the massif was restricted to research scientists when the site was set aside as a strict nature reserve in 1952. In 1998, it was opened to the public when it was converted into a national park. It became part of the World Heritage Site known as the Rainforests of the Atsinanana in 2007. "Unique in the world, a place of dense, jungly rainforests, sheer high cliffs, and plants and animals found nowhere else on earth", Marojejy National Park has received plaudits in the ''New York Times'' and ''Smithsonian Magazine'' for its natural beauty and rich biodiversity that encompasses critically endangered members of the silky sifaka. To that end, a global consortium of conservation organizations, including the Lemur Conservation Foundation, Duke Lemur Center and Madagasc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manongarivo
Manongarivo Reserve is a wildlife reserve in the North-West of Madagascar in the region of Diana. Manongarivo is home to both the Sambirano mouse lemur and the Sambirano woolly lemur. Geography The reserve has a surface of 64,356 ha and is situated at 35 km from Ambanja. It has an elevation of 1013 metres. Flora and fauna The vegetation is composed of low- and mid-altitude dense humid forest. Low-altitude, dry-transitional forest covers 18% of the reserve, and is dominated by trees of ''Canarium'', ''Symphonia'' (and other species of Guttiferae), ''Terminalia'', ''Ravensara'' and species of Sapotaceae, with smaller trees such as ''Phyllarthron'' in the subcanopy. There are about sixty species of birds in the reserve, thirty of which are endemic to Madagascar. Some of the species found in the reserve are: Fauna * '' Eulemur macaco'' * '' Microcebus sambiranensis'' * '' Philepitta castanea'' * ''Ploceus sakalava'' Flora * '' Bazzania descrescens'' * '' Diplasiolejeunea co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makira Natural Park
In 2001, the Madagascar Ministry of Environment and Forests, in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), launched a program to create the 372,470 ha Makira Forest Protected Area. Formally established in 2012, Makira Natural Park (IUCN Category II) is one of the largest of Madagascar’s protected areas and encompasses 372,470 hectares of strictly protected forest buffered by more than 350,000 hectares of community-managed forests. The Makira Natural Park is managed by WCS on behalf of the Government of Madagascar under a delegated management contract. The Makira forests represent one of the largest expanses of humid forest left in the biologically rich eastern rainforest biome of Madagascar. Makira is estimated to contain around 50% of Madagascar’s floral biodiversity and harbors the highest lemur diversity in the country with 17 species. Particularly notable is the occurrence of 3 critical endangered lemur species, the Silky Sifaka ('' Propithecus candidus'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor
The Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor (CAZ) is a large area of protected forest biome in eastern Madagascar. The CAZ encompasses some 3,810 km, making it one of the largest areas of rainforest remaining in the country. Over 2,000 species of plants have been recorded in the CAZ, nearly 1,700 of which are endemic to the region. This area is the main source of water in the eastern and western part of Madagascar. It received the status of a natural resource reserve in 2015. Flora and fauna The CAZ is an area of enormous biodiversity: fifteen species of lemur have been recorded in it, at least three of which (the indri, the black-and-white ruffed lemur'','' and the diademed sifaka) are known to be threatened. Some 30 other mammal species, 129 amphibian species, and 89 avian species have been recorded in the CAZ. See also *National parks of Madagascar This list of national parks of Madagascar includes all officially recognized protected areas as of 2015. The protected areas n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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