A Photographic Field Guide of the Grasses of Madagascar

This photo guide is a compilation of information on Madagascar’s grasses (Poaceae).

Based on expert-generated and verified information in Malagasy and English on 269 species of grasses -around half of the known species. Includes an index to Malagasy common names as well as scientific names.

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Historical biogeography and character-mapping of Acridocarpus (Malpighiaceae) evidence a revised infrageneric classification system and shifts in African biomes from the Eocene to the Miocene

This study reconstructs the molecular phylogeny, historical biogeography, and morphological evolution of Acridocarpus (Malpighiaceae). Using six DNA markers, character mapping, and dated phylogenies, it proposes a new monophyletic infrageneric classification system.

The genus originated ~43 Ma in African–Madagascan rainforests, with multiple Oligocene colonisations of dry forests. The Miocene diversification of Madagascan savannas is corroborated.

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