| Ayenia ivorensis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Genus: | Ayenia |
| Species: | †A. ivorensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ayenia ivorensis | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
Byttneria ivorensisN.Hallé (1962) | |
Ayenia ivorensis is a tree in the family Malvaceae that is now classified as extinct. It was identified from a single herbarium specimen collected in the Upper Guinean forests of Ivory Coast.
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Ayenia asplundii is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is native to Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, from sea level to 2,000 meters elevation.
Ayenia flexuosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It a shrub or tree found only in Ecuador. Its natural habitat is tropical moist montane forests from 2,500 to 3,000 meters elevation.
Ayenia jaramilloana is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is found only in Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical high-elevation shrubland.
Ayenia loxensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is found only in Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Ayenia minytricha is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is native to Ecuador and western Bolivia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests from 1,000 to 1,500 meters elevation.
Ayenia obtusata is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is found only in Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests from 200 to 2,800 meters elevation.
Ayenia sparrei is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It a shrub found only in Ecuador.
Hyperolius sylvaticus is a species of frog in the family Hyperoliidae. It is found in southern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, and western Cameroon, with a gap in Benin. It is also likely to occur in Liberia. Common name Bobiri reed frog has been coined for this species.
Gluema ivorensis is a species of plant in the family Sapotaceae. It is found in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gabon, and Ghana. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Khaya anthotheca, with the common name East African mahogany, is a large tree species in the Meliaceae family, native to tropical Africa.
Khaya ivorensis, also called African mahogany or Lagos mahogany, is a tall forest tree with a buttressed trunk in the family Meliaceae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, and Nigeria where it grows primarily in lowland tropical rainforests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Tapura ivorensis is a species of plant in the Dichapetalaceae family. It is found in Ivory Coast and Ghana. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Terminalia ivorensis is a species of tree in the family Combretaceae, and is known by the common names of Ivory Coast almond, idigbo, black afara, framire and emeri.
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Ayenia compacta is a species of shrub in the mallow family known by the common name California ayenia.
Celtis mildbraedii is a species of forest tree in the family Cannabaceae. It was previously assigned to the family Ulmaceae. These trees grow in limited areas of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. They are also found in forested areas from West Africa to Sudan, DRC, Angola and Tanzania. Common names include natal white stinkwood, red-fruited white-stinkwood and natal elm. This species is more common in Tropical Africa than in Southern Africa.
Ayenia limitaris is a rare North American species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names Rio Grande ayenia, Texas ayenia, and Tamaulipan kidneypetal. It is native to an area straddling the Rio Grande in Mexico and the United States. Today it is known from far southern Texas and far northern sections of the Mexican states of Coahuila and Tamaulipas. It has become rare because most of its habitat has been degraded or destroyed. There are perhaps four populations remaining in Texas and two in Mexico, for a total of 1000 individual plants at most. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.
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Ayenia elegans is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is native to southeastern Asia, including Bangladesh, Myanmar, south-central China (Yunnan), eastern India, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Peninsular Malaysia.
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