DIDIEREACEAE - Alluaudia comosa 
 
TAXONOMY: Magnoliophyta, Magnoliopsida, Caryophyllidae, Caryophyllales.
	Didiereaceae, Didierea Family

PLANT NAME:    Alluaudia comosa (Drake) Drake 
TROPICOS #:    10700002
PUBLICATION:   Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 9: 37. 1903.
JOUR/BOOK ID:  L00576

BASIONYM:      Didierea comosa Drake
TROPICOS #:    10700013
PUBLICATION:   Comp. Rend. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci. 133: 241. 1901. 
JOUR/BOOK ID:  L00603

TYPE LOCALITY:   sine loc.
COLLECTOR:     Alluaud s.n.
HERBARIUM:     T: herb. non desig.

CITED IN:  B000010 - Rudd, V. E., 1965; B018694 - Rowley, G., 1990; 
               B023594 - Montagnac, R., 1958; B023596 - Montagnac, R., 1959;
	       B023597 - Rauh, W. & H. Reznik., 1961; B007938 - Perrot, E. &
               P. Guerin., 1903; B001320 - Rauh, W., 1963; B023598 - Rauh, W., 1983. 

PROJECT DISTRIBUTION:  Madagascar.

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Botanical comments: George E. Schatz/schatz@mobot.org

Technical comments: Alan V. Tucker/tucker@mobot.org