Maillardia montana

Maillardia montana, synonyms including Maillardia pendula, is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae, native to Mayotte, the Aldabras, and Madagascar in the western Indian Ocean.

[1] It was first described by Jacques Désiré Leandri in 1948.

[2] Maillardia pendula was assessed as "critically endangered" in the 1998 IUCN Red List, where it is said to be native only to the island of Grande Terre in the Aldabras.

[3] As of February 2023[update], M. pendula was regarded as a synonym of Maillardia montana, which has a wider distribution, including Madagascar.

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