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Sclerodactylon macrostachyum

Synonyms: Eleusine juncea; Eleusine macrostachya (homotypic); Sclerodactylon juncifolium

Wikipedia Abstract

Sclerodactylon is a genus of plants in the grass family, native to eastern Africa and to various islands in the Indian Ocean. Species The only known species is Sclerodactylon macrostachyum, native to Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, Comoros, Aldabra, Seychelles, and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. formerly included see Acrachne \n* Sclerodactylon micrandrum - Acrachne racemosa
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Attributes

Structure [1]  Grass

Predators

Aldabrachelys gigantea (Aldabra giant tortoise)[2]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2The Growth, Ecology, and Population Structure of the Giant Tortoises on Aldabra, P. Grubb, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B, Vol. 260, 1971, pp. 327–372.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0