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  2. Polyscias rodriguesiana - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Category:Endemic flora of Rodrigues - Wikipedia

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  4. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names

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    The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...

  5. Grande Montagne Nature Reserve - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Ramosmania rodriguesi - Wikipedia

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    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."

  7. List of commonly used taxonomic affixes - Wikipedia

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    Used for species that resemble previously named species. Examples: Paranthodon ("nearly flower tooth"); Pararhabdodon ("near fluted tooth"); Parasaurolophus ("near lizard crest")-pelta: Pronunciation: /pɛltə:/ Origin: Ancient Greek: πέλτη (péltē). Meaning: shield. Frequently used for ankylosaurs.

  8. List of descriptive plant species epithets (I–Z) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Pyrostria revoluta - Wikipedia

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    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]