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Moths pollinate the plant while Rodrigues flying foxes spread the seeds. These pollinators are less endangered than R. rodriguesi, therefore their absence is not expected to be a problem when the species is reintroduced to Rodrigues. [4] R. rodriguesi's female flowers develop after male flowers, indicating that the plant is protandrous.
A small juvenile plant, growing in coastal coral sediments at François Leguat Giant Tortoise and Cave Reserve. It is endemic to the island of Rodrigues, in Mauritius. It used to occur throughout Rodrigues island, but was especially common in coastal regions and on limestone or old coral sediments. It is now critically endangered.
Flora of Rodrigues — an island politically belonging to Mauritius, located in the Western Indian Ocean off East Africa. The flora of Rodrigues is not included in the flora of Mauritius in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions .
Pyrostria revoluta is found on Rodrigues, one of the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean, and an Outer island of Mauritius. [2] By 1980, it appeared to be restricted to Grande Montagne and Cascade Victoire, and by 1989, the species was considered to be "on the verge of extinction". [2]
View from one of the lookout points. It is located in the high Grand Montagne mountains, in the central eastern part of Rodrigues. The reserve includes an education and information centre, remains of the extinct Solitaire and giant tortoise species, and the only remaining endemic species of the island - the Rodrigues Fruit Bat (Pteropus rodricensis), Rodrigues Fody (Foudia flavicans) and ...
Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1] These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners.
Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1] Thousands of plants have been named for people, including botanists and their colleagues, plant collectors , horticulturists , explorers, rulers ...
List of plants by common name; List of plant family names with etymologies; List of plants known as arugula; List of plants known as breadfruit; List of plants known as bottlebrush; List of plants known as buckthorn; List of plants known as cedar; List of plants known as chickweed; List of plants known as compass plant; List of plants known as ...