''Celtis madagascariensis'' is a species of flowering plant endemic to Madagascar.

Description

''Celtis madagascariensis'' is a small deciduous tree, growing 7 to 10 meters high. Its bark is smooth and whitish to grey. Its leaves are alternate, simple, and ovate-elliptic, 7 – 10 cm wide by 2.5 – 3 cm wide.Sattarian, A.; Maesen, Van Der L.J.G. (2005). Two New Species of Celtis (Celtidaceae) from Australia and Madagascar. ''Blumea - Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants'', Volume 50, Number 3, 2005, pp. 499-503(5). Naturalis Biodiversity Center. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3767/000651905X622752 Male and hermaphrodite flowers creamy with a tender glabrous pedicel, 3 to 5 mm long, with 5 glabrous sepals and 5 stamens. They are borne on axillary inflorescences, as long as or longer than the petiole, lower ones with only male flowers or with male flowers and 1 or 2 hermaphrodite flowers, and upper ones sometimes without male flowers and 2 to 5 hermaphrodite flowers. The fruit is a

drupe In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the ''pit'', ''stone'', or '' pyrena'') of hardened endocarp with a seed (''kernel'') ...

, green becoming red or brown and broadly ellipsoid, c. 12 x 8 mm, bearing a single seed.

Range and habitat

''Celtis madagascariensis'' is widespread in northern, western and southwestern Madagascar. It lives along forest margins, up to 1,200 meters elevation.

References

{{Taxonbar, from = Q12246762 madagascariensis Endemic flora of Madagascar