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6.
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long; blades narrowly elliptic, 5 7 × 2 2.5(3) mm, base cuneate, apex acute-cuspidate, margins revolute; midnerve invisible on adaxial surface, slightly visible and not prominent abaxially.
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long, thecae positioned at anterior end, dorsal oil-gland present.
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. The epithet
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.
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is known from two locations with an estimated AOO of
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². The Ambilondambo and Ampondrabe forests are both part of the Paysage Harmonieux Protégé de Loky Manambato gazetted in 2015 and managed by the Association F anamby (GOODMAN et al., 2018). Within Loky Manambato, the decline in area of dry forest was zero (0 %) between the years 1996 and 2006, and 330 ha (1.1 %) between 2006 and 2016 (GOODMAN et al., 2018). This species and its habitat are nonetheless subjected to ongoing anthropogenic pressures including slash-and burnagriculture, removal of hardwood timber, pasturage of “zébu” cattle, and grassland fires which can sometimes penetrate into the forest (RAKOTONDRAVONY, 2006; GOODMAN et al., 2018).
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is thus provisionally assessed as “Endangered” [EN B2ab(iii)] in accordance with the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria (IUCN, 2012).
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.
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<emphasis id="B9ABEABAFFA59D3CFF238DB3C00A1E89" box="[254,539,1431,1455]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="184">Memecylon minutifolium</emphasis>
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clearly belongs to
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sect.
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, where it appears most closely related to
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<emphasis id="B9ABEABAFFA59D3CFF388DFCC3661EC9" box="[229,375,1495,1519]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="184">M. multinode</emphasis>
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. Both of these species have acutecuspidate leaves and lack the character of “aphyllous” nodes shared by other members of this species-group (STONE, 2014).
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The extremely small leaves of
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