Madagascar ocotillo (Alluaudia procera) is a decidous succulent plantspecies of the familyDidiereaceae. It is native to Madagascar. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Achatocarpaceae Aizoaceae (Fig-marigold family) Amaranthaceae (amaranth family) Ancistrocladaceae Asteropeiaceae Barbeuiaceae Basellaceae (basella family) Cactaceae (cactus family) Caryophyllaceae (carnation family) Dioncophyllaceae Droseraceae (sundew family) Drosophyllaceae Frankeniaceae Molluginaceae (carpetweed family) Nepenthaceae Nyctaginaceae (four-oclock family) Physenaceae Phytolaccaceae (pokeweed family) Plumbaginaceae (plumbago family) Polygonaceae (buckwheat family) Portulacaceae (purslane family) Rhabdodendraceae... Genera Alluaudia Alluaudiopsis Decaryia Didierea Didiereaceae is a small family of just four genera and 11 species of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar, where they form an important component of the Madagascar spiny forests. ... Species Alluaudia ascendens Alluaudia comosa Alluaudia dumosa Alluaudia humbertii Alluaudia montagnacii Alluaudia procera Alluaudia is a genus of six species of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar, where they form an important component of the Madagascar spiny forests. ... Divisions Green algae Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... In biology, a species is a kind of organism. ... A family of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups linked through descent (demonstrated or stipulated) from a common ancestor, marriage or adoption. ... Genera Alluaudia Alluaudiopsis Decaryia Didierea Didiereaceae is a small family of just four genera and 11 species of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar, where they form an important component of the Madagascar spiny forests. ...
It's a process called convergent evolution, in which organisms that are not closely related independently evolve similar traits as they adapt to separate yet comparable ecosystems.
In Madagascar, what appears to be a thicker and greener version of North America's spindly ocotillo is actually an Alluaudia procera--not an ocotillo relative at all--which can grow 50 feet tall, even when it doesn't rain for seven months at a time.
Until its extinction in the mid-17th century, the flightless elephant bird roamed amid the baobabs and Alluaudia.
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