Celtis madagascariensis is a species of flowering plant endemic to Madagascar.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Cannabaceae |
| Genus: | Celtis |
| Species: | C. madagascariensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Celtis madagascariensis Sattarian
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Description edit
Celtis madagascariensis is a small deciduous tree, growing 7 to 10 meters high. Its bark is smooth and whitish to grey. Its leaves are alternate, simple, and ovate-elliptic, 7 – 10 cm wide by 2.5 – 3 cm wide.[3]
Male and hermaphrodite flowers creamy with a tender glabrous pedicel, 3 to 5 mm long, with 5 glabrous sepals and 5 stamens. They are borne on axillary inflorescences, as long as or longer than the petiole, lower ones with only male flowers or with male flowers and 1 or 2 hermaphrodite flowers, and upper ones sometimes without male flowers and 2 to 5 hermaphrodite flowers. The fruit is a drupe, green becoming red or brown and broadly ellipsoid, c. 12 x 8 mm, bearing a single seed.[3]
Range and habitat edit
Celtis madagascariensis is widespread in northern, western and southwestern Madagascar.[1] It lives along forest margins,[3] up to 1,200 meters elevation.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c Ravololomanana, N. 2019. Celtis madagascariensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T128086221A128090674. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T128086221A128090674.en. Accessed 11 December 2022.
- ^ Celtis madagascariensis Sattarian Plants of the World Online, Kew Science. Accessed 11 December 2022.
- ^ a b c Sattarian, A.; Maesen, Van Der L.J.G. (2005). Two New Species of Celtis (Celtidaceae) from Australia and Madagascar. Blumea - Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants, Volume 50, Number 3, 2005, pp. 499-503(5). Naturalis Biodiversity Center. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3767/000651905X622752