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Accession Data:

Alluaudia montagnacii Rauh

  • Common Name: Alluaudia
  • Family: Didiereaceae Radlk. ex Drake

  • Country of Origin: Madagascar (Itampolo)
  • Habitat: spiny thicket forest

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200800142
  • Source:
  • Accession Date: 09-10-2008
  • Bench: 2203 - XER:Spiny Thicket/Socotra/S Africa
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 03-19-2025
  • Restrictions:
    • CITES Appendix II Listed Plant

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: core eudicots
  • Order: Caryophyllales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Didiereaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

References (internal):

  • Plants used in EEB 2244 - General Ecology
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Madagascar

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, September 29, 2017.
  2. WCSP (2017). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Friday, September 29, 2017.
  3. Alluaudia montagnacii at African Plants Database. Last accessed on Friday, September 29, 2017.
  4. Brooke E. Crowley; Laurie R. Godfrey
    Why all those spines? Anachronistic defences in the Didiereoideae against now extinct lemurs
    S. Afr. j. sci. vol.109 n.1-2 Pretoria Jan. 2013. Last accessed on Friday, September 29, 2017.

data regenerated on Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:54:15 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Alluaudia montagnacii

Additional images for this accession:

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Current Accessions in the Didiereaceae

  • Alluaudia ascendens W/C
  • Alluaudia comosa
  • Alluaudia dumosa W/C
  • Alluaudia humbertii
  • Alluaudia montagnacii
  • Alluaudia procera
  • Ceraria pygmaea
  • Decarya madagascariensis
  • Didierea trollii
  • Portulacaria afra 'variegata'
  • Portulacaria afra
  • Portulacaria afra 'Cork Bark'
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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