Chrysalidocarpus ambanjae
Species of flowering plant
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Chrysalidocarpus ambanjae is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae, endemic to rain forests of northwestern Madagascar. The last specimen was collected more than 80 years ago, and it may be extinct.[3]
| Chrysalidocarpus ambanjae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Arecales |
| Family: | Arecaceae |
| Genus: | Chrysalidocarpus |
| Species: | C. ambanjae |
| Binomial name | |
| Chrysalidocarpus ambanjae (Beentje) Eiserhardt & W.J.Baker | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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The species was first described as Phloga sambiranensis in 1933 by Henri Lucien Jumelle. In 1995 it was published under the name Dypsis ambanjae by Henk Jaap Beentje.[4][5] In 2022 Wolf L. Eiserhardt and William John Baker placed the species in genus Chrysalidocarpus as C. ambanjae.[2]
