Gastonia rodriguesiana
Encyclopedia
Gastonia rodriguesiana is a species of plant
in the Araliaceae
family. It is endemic to Mauritius
.
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
in the Araliaceae
Araliaceae
Araliaceae is a family of flowering plants, also known as the Aralia family or Ivy family. The family includes 254 species of trees, shrubs, lianas and perennial herbaceous plants into 2 subfamilies...
family. It is endemic to Mauritius
Mauritius
Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
.
Source
- Strahm, W. 1998. Gastonia rodriguesiana. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 21 August 2007.