Dombeya amaniensis

Dombeya amaniensis
Dombeya amaniensis
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Dombeyoideae
Genus: Dombeya
Species: D. amaniensis
Binomial name
Dombeya amaniensis
Engl.

Dombeya amaniensis is a flowering plant species found only in Tanzania. Formerly placed in the Sterculiaceae, this artificial assemblage is now included in the family Malvaceae by most authors.

Its relationships are not well determined. It seems to belong to an ill-defined clade containing congeners from eastern Africa and the Madagascar region, such as D. tiliacea and several species from the Mascarenes. Among the latter, D. delislei, D. elegans and D. punctata might be somewhat closer to the present species than the "rainforest group" around D. ciliata.[1]

D. amaniensis is a rare tree of moist forest between 900 and 1,000 m ASL. It has hitherto only been found at Makuyuni, on the Mahenge plateau, and in the East Usambara Mountains. This plant is endangered due to habitat loss.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Cao et al. (2006)
  2. ^ Lovett, J. & Clarke (1998)

References

  • Cao, Nathanaël; Le Pechon, Timothée & Zaragüeta-Bagils, René (2006): Does minimizing homoplasy really maximize homology? MaHo: A method for evaluating homology among most parsimonious trees. C. R. Palevol 7(1): 17–26. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2007.12.008 (HTML abstract)
  • Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P. (1998). Dombeya amaniensis. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 19 July 2007.


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