Species of flowering plant
Dombeya amaniensis is a flowering plant species found only in Tanzania . Formerly placed in the family Sterculiaceae , this artificial assemblage is now included in the Malvaceae by most authors.
Its relationships are not well determined. It seems to belong to an ill-defined clade containing congeners from eastern Africa and the Madagascar region, such as D. tiliacea and several species from the Mascarenes . Among the latter, D. delislei , D. elegans and D. punctata might be somewhat closer to the present species than the "rainforest group" around D. ciliata .[2]
Dombeya amaniensis is a rare tree of moist forest between 900 and 1,000 m ASL . It has hitherto only been found at Makuyuni , on the Mahenge Plateau , and in the East Usambara Mountains . This plant is endangered due to habitat loss .[3]
References
Cao, Nathanaël; Le Pechon, Timothée & Zaragüeta-Bagils, René (2006): Does minimizing homoplasy really maximize homology? MaHo: A method for evaluating homology among most parsimonious trees. C. R. Palevol 7 (1): 17–26. doi :10.1016/j.crpv.2007.12.008 (HTML abstract)