- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
- ›sarcolaena family
- ›Leptolaena
Leptolaena arenaria
Leptolaena arenaria is a tree in the family Sarcolaenaceae. It is endemic to Madagascar.
From the article Leptolaena arenaria on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Leptolaena arenaria grows up to 12 m (40 ft) tall with a trunk diameter of up to 30 cm (12 in). Its bright green leaves are ovate in shape and measure up to 7 cm (3 in) long. The tree's flowers typically occur in inflorescences of two flowers, each with white petals. The roundish fruits measure up to 1.2 cm (0.5 in) in diameter. The species is used in local medicine.
Range & habitat
Leptolaena arenaria is known only from the northwestern regions of Diana, Betsiboka, Boeny, Melaky and Sofia. Its habitat is in dry forests from sea level to 408 m (1,339 ft) elevation.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Leptolaena arenaria in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 569155.