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  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
  5. ›Gentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies
  6. ›Dogbane Family
  7. ›Apocynoideae
  8. ›Malouetieae
  9. ›Pachypodiinae
  10. ›Pachypodium
Madagascar palm
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IUCN EN · Endangered

Madagascar palm

Pachypodium baronii

Madagascar palm (Pachypodium baronii), also known as bontaka, is a flowering plant in the Dogbane family Apocynaceae (which has been recently merged with Milkweed family Asclepiadaceae). It has the habit of a robust shrub with a spherical or bottle-shaped trunk. It has several cylindrical branches at the top.

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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 499013.