Rubiaceae
Ramosmania

Ramosmania rodriguesii Tirveng.

First published in Compt. Rend. Séances Soc. Biogéogr. 65: 14 (1989)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Rodrigues (Mt. Lubin). It is a shrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Rodrigues

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew Species Profiles

  • IUCN Red List.
  • Mauritian Wildlife Foundation (2007). Kew Gardens gives hope of survival for the café marron. Mauritian Wildlife Foundation Newsletter, 8.
  • McHugh, D. (1986). World’s rarest tree threatened. Endangered Species Technical Bulletin Reprint, 3(8): 3.
  • National Public Radio - The Little Coffee Plant that Wouldn't Die (March, 2009).
  • Silva, N.F. & Goring, D.R. (2001). Mechanisms of self-incompatibility in flowering plants. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 58: 1988–2007.
  • Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Plant Conservation Unit. (2003). Rare Mauritian plant produces fruit. Biological Conservation Newsletter, 227.
  • WWF.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
May 1, 1995 Balfour, I.B. [s.n.] Mauritius K000419861 Syntype Yes
May 1, 1995 Balfour, I.B. [s.n.] Mauritius K000419862 Type Yes
May 1, 1995 Balfour, I.B. [s.n.] Mauritius K000419863 Type Yes
Mauritius K:SPC-59407.000 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Living Collection Database

    • Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Species Profiles

    • Kew Species Profiles
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0