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Latania

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Latania, commonly known as Latan palm or Latania palm, is a genus of flowering plant in the palm tree family, native to the Mascarene Islands in the western Indian Ocean. [1]

25 relations: Arecaceae, Arecales, Borasseae, Catkin, Commelinids, Coryphoideae, Dioecy, Endangered species, Family (biology), Flowering plant, Fruit anatomy, Genus, Indian Ocean, Inflorescence, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Latania, Latania loddigesii, Latania lontaroides, Latania verschaffeltii, Mascarene Islands, Mauritius, Monocotyledon, Plant, Réunion, Rodrigues.

Arecaceae

The Arecaceae are a botanical family of perennial trees, climbers, shrubs, and acaules commonly known as palm trees (owing to historical usage, the family is alternatively called Palmae).

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Arecales

Arecales is an order of flowering plants.

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Borasseae

Borasseae is a tribe in the palm subfamily Coryphoideae.

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Catkin

A catkin or ament is a slim, cylindrical flower cluster (a spike), with inconspicuous or no petals, usually wind-pollinated (anemophilous) but sometimes insect-pollinated (as in Salix).

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Commelinids

In plant taxonomy, commelinids (originally commelinoids) (plural, not capitalised) is a name used by the APG IV system for a clade within the monocots, which in its turn is a clade within the angiosperms.

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Coryphoideae

The Coryphoideae is one of five subfamilies in the palm family, Arecaceae.

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Dioecy

Dioecy (Greek: διοικία "two households"; adjective form: dioecious) is a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Fruit anatomy

Fruit anatomy is the plant anatomy of the internal structure of fruit.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Latania

Latania, commonly known as Latan palm or Latania palm, is a genus of flowering plant in the palm tree family, native to the Mascarene Islands in the western Indian Ocean.

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Latania loddigesii

Latania loddigesii is a species of palm tree.

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Latania lontaroides

Latania lontaroides is a species of palm tree.

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Latania verschaffeltii

The yellow latan palm (Latania verschaffeltii) is a species of flowering plant in the Arecaceae family.

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Mascarene Islands

The Mascarene Islands or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues.

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Mauritius

Mauritius (or; Maurice), officially the Republic of Mauritius (République de Maurice), is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent.

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Monocotyledon

Monocotyledons, commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are flowering plants (angiosperms) whose seeds typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon.

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Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.

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Réunion

Réunion (La Réunion,; previously Île Bourbon) is an island and region of France in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar and southwest of Mauritius.

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Rodrigues

Rodrigues (Île Rodrigues) is a autonomous outer island of the Republic of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, about east of Mauritius.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latania

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