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Pages in category "Endemic flora of Rodrigues" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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 .
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] Many of these plants are listed in Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners.
This is a list of plants organized by their common names. However, the common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using their scientific names, in other words using binomials or "Latin" names.
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.
Bu: listed in Lotte Burkhardt's Index of Eponymic Plant Names [5] CS: listed in both Allen Coombes's The A to Z of Plant Names and William T. Stearn's Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners [6] Gl: listed in David Gledhill's The Names of Plants [7] Qu: listed in Umberto Quattrocchi's four-volume CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names [8 ...
Ramosmania rodriguesi, commonly known as café marron, [1] is a tree native to the Mauritian island of Rodrigues [2] in the Indian Ocean. The plant has an average size of about 5 to 6 feet (1.5 to 1.8 m) [2] and features white five-petal star-shaped flowers. Its French common name café marron translates to "brown coffee."
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.