''Landiopsis'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispe ...

genus of

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s belonging to the family

Rubiaceae The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules a ...

. It only contains one known species, ''Landiopsis capuronii'' Bosser It is native to

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

Description

''Landiopsis capuronii'' is a shrub which grows 2 to 5 meters high.

Range and habitat

''Landiopsis capuronii'' is native to northern Madagascar. There are eight known subpopulations in Diana and northern

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regions. It inhabits dry deciduous forests between 10 and 600 meters elevation.

Conservation and threats

The species is threatened by

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from human activities, including

shifting cultivation Shifting cultivation is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned while post-disturbance fallow vegetation is allowed to freely grow while the cultivator moves on to another plot. The period of cu ...

and logging. There ia a subpopulation in

Loky Manambato Loky-Manambato is a protected area in northern Madagascar. The protected area covers 2484.09 km2,UNEP-WCMC (2022)Protected Area Profile for Loky Manambatofrom the World Database on Protected Areas. Accessed 18 September 2022. and includes a bloc ...

protected area.

Name

The genus name of ''Landiopsis'' is in honour of

Jérôme Lalande Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (; 11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer, freemason and writer. Biography Lalande was born at Bourg-en-Bresse (now in the département of Ain) to Pierre Lefrançois and Marie‐Anne‐Ga ...

(1732–1807), a French astronomer, freemason and writer. The Latin specific epithet of ''capuronii'' refers to Botanist René Paul Raymond Capuron (1921–1971) who originally described the species. Both genus and species were first described and published in Adansonia, séries 3, Vol.20 on page 132 in 1998.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q5969901, from2=Q15469149 Rubiaceae Rubiaceae genera Endemic flora of Madagascar Flora of the Madagascar dry deciduous forests Plants described in 1845