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<mods:title>A synopsis of the Malagasy endemic genus Megistostegium Hochr. (Hibisceae, Malvaceae)</mods:title>
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Genus
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Hochr.
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<emphasis box="[699,1210,1151,1175]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="106">Annuaire du Conservatoire et du Jardin botanique de</emphasis>
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18-19: 221 (1915). —
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Massif de la Table.
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, 5301 (P).
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Costantin & Poisson,
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des
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Miers ex Lindl.,
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Trew
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Nova Acta Physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae
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2: 332 (1761).
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Tiegh.
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,
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42: 357 (1895)
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FIG. 3.— Principal Components Analysis of vegetative and floral measures from herbarium specimens of
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<emphasis box="[963,1209,797,814]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="107">Megistostegium microphyllum</emphasis>
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(O),
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(Drake) Hochr.
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(*) and
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Hochr.
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(·) from throughout their range.
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FIG. 4. — Principal Components Analysis of vegetative traits measured in
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<emphasis box="[735,986,1471,1488]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="107">Megistostegium microphyllum</emphasis>
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Hochr.
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(O),
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(Drake) Hochr.
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(*) and
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Hochr.
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(·) from transect data at CSM.
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<paragraph blockId="6.[111,646,1578,1700]" box="[113,270,1578,1605]" pageId="6" pageNumber="107">MORPHOLOGY</paragraph>
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Prostrate or erect shrubs or trees to
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tall.Branches cylindrical with white/grey cork-like bark, a cracked appearance and knobby protrusions extending from the limbs. Roots few-branched, covered with a dark, papery bark and often run close to the soil surface. Leaves, petioles, stipules, peduncles, epicalyx, calyx and adaxial base of corolla densely,stellate-pubescent. Leaves borne on short shoots or not, clustered or prominently absent at branch tips. Stipules persistent or caducous, linear to lanceolate. Flowers large, solitary, axillary. Peduncles articulate. Epicalyx 4-lobed, lobes fused about halfway, campanulate, petaloid, accrescent in fruit. Calyx lobes 5, white to light pink, hidden by the conspicuous epicalyx. Petals 5, white, pink or red, obovate to narrowly elliptic, overlapping or not. Nectar copious, sweet, produced in a large trichome-filled cavity created by a flap of basal petal tissue to the adaxial side of corolla. Staminal column (
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) gives rise to 13-30 stamens with long delicate filaments in no discernable whorls, and crowned with 5 white apical teeth. Anthers monothecate and reniform. Pollen large (> 100 µm), periporate, spherical, intectate with a microscabrate surface; apertures (140-150) are at the level of the exine, delimitation distinct, no annulus, pore membrane structureless. Grains echinate, echinae (80-110) smooth arranged uniformly. Style red,
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) covered with ferruginous hairs but become green in appearance as the bud grows in size and gains pigmentation in the last days of maturation before flowering. Fruits dry, globose, 5-locular, septicidal capsules subtended by a mature accrescent epicalyx which easily catches the wind and probably acts to disperse the reniform, tomentose seeds. Seeds gray (2[-3] per locule,
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CONSERVATION STATUS OF
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is restricted to the xeric, deciduous scrublands of southwestern
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and associated coastline (
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). These forests are home to some of the most distinctive plant communities on the island with extremely high levels of endemism at many taxonomic levels (
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) and remain severely and continuously threatened by anthropogenic habitat disturbance.
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, in particular, is threatened by intense herbivory by goats and other livestock within and outside of protected areas, by invasive plants that no doubt compete and often better acquire the small amounts of available water (e.g.,
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<emphasis box="[924,1013,913,939]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="108">Opuntia</emphasis>
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Mill.
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) in these dry forests, and by the potential (if not actual) extinction of pollinators (Koopman 2008).
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KEY TO THE SPECIES OF
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HOCHR.
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1. Tree; leaves thin/flexible; flowers zygomorphic; staminal column curved, well exserted past corolla (
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long) ......................................................................
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— Prostrate to tall shrub; leaves fleshy; leaf base rounded; flowers actinomorphic, staminal column straight, exserted equal to or barely past corolla (
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long) ....................... 2
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2. Prostrate subshrub restricted to calcareous rocky plateaus in extreme southern
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; stipules foliaceous, persistant; leaves large (
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×
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), clustered at branch tips; flowers large (epicalyx 3.9-5.0 cm long), often pendant; epicalyx dark maroon; corolla forming a wide cup (apical diameter more than
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) ..............................
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tall) on sand or rocky sand throughout southwest
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×
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) ........................................................................................
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