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Ravenala blancii, adult flowering individual reaching the forest canopy, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Marcel Hladik
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Ravenala blancii, adult flowering individual in the forest canopy, few and quite small living leaves distributed in a regular fan, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Marcel Hladik
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Ravenala blancii, adult individual flowering in forest, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo CM Hladik
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Ravenala blancii, mature flowering individual with characteristic few leaves, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Marcel Hladik
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Ravenala blancii, the small and the large inflorescences of the type specimen Hladik 6760, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Annette Hladik
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Ravenala blancii, inflorescence and leaf of the type specimen Hladik 6760, the leaf base being symmetric, the overlapping sheath reaching the top of the pseudo petiole, Andasibe, Madagascar
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Ravenala blancii, the small inflorescence of the type specimen Hladik 6760, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Annette Hladik
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Ravenala blancii, bracts, petals, stamens and pistil of the type specimen Hladik 6760, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Annette Hladik
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Ravenala blancii, flowers of the type specimen Hladik 6760, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo AnnetteHladik
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Ravenala blancii, cincinnus of sequencially opening flowers in the type specimen, Hladik 6760, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Annette Hladik
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Ravenala blancii, one flower of the type specimen Hladik 6760 with petaloid sepals, petals, stamens and pistil, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Annette Hladik
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Ravenala grandis (left) and Ravenala blancii (right), comparison between cut inflorescences, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Annette Hladik
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Ravenala blancii (left) infructescence with torn and degraded bracts, and Ravenala hladikorum (right) with stiff persistant bracts, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Marcel Hladik
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Ravenala blancii infructescence with torn and degraded bracts, and pointed conical fruit apex, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Marcel Hladik
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Ravenala blancii (left) and Ravenala hladikorum (right) maturing fruits, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Marcel Hladik
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Ravenala hladikorum (left) and Ravenala blancii (right) mature infructescences with opening ripe dry fruits, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Marcel Hladik
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Ravenala blancii (left) with pointed conical apex and Ravenala hladikorum (right) with truncated apex, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Marcel Hladik
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Ravenala hladikorum, adult in forest canopy, irregular fan shape due to the leaves alternately staggered, same as in juvenile phase, Andasibe, Madagascar, Photo Marcel Hladik
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Patrick Blanc observing a young Ravenala hladikorum with long petioled leaves and horizontal leaf blade, Anamalazaotra NP, Andasibe, Madagascar, Aug. 2024
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Ravenala hladikorum (left) with petiolate leaves and ravenala blancii (right) with decurrent leaf blade, juvenile individuals side by side in forest understory, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Patrick Blanc showing the first three leaves of a seedling of Ravenala hladikorum with long petiole and horizontal leaf blade, Anamalazaotra NP, Andasibe, Madagascar, Aug. 2024
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Ravenala hladikorum, young long petiolate individual in small forest gap, Andasibe, Madagascar, Photo P. Blanc
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Ravenala hladikorum, juvenile phase exhibiting long petiole and distinctly vertically staggered insertion of each half blade along the midrib, Andasibe, Madagascar, Photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala hladikorum, dry scalloped brown emergences of the leaf sheath, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo David Scherberich
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Ravenala hladikorum, dry scalloped brown emergences of the leaf sheath and bright green pseudo petiole, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo David Scherberich
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Ravenala hladikorum, close up of the bright brown large scalloped split leaf sheaths, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala hladikorum, leaves alternately staggered and bright brown large scalloped split leaf sheaths, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala hladikorum, regularly scalloped and split leaf shath margins, Andasibe, Madagascar, photo Marcel Hladik
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Patrick Blanc and Pascal Héni under the lordly Ravenala grandis, Beforona, Madagascar, Aug. 2024
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Patrick Blanc under the lordly Ravenala grandis, Beforona, Madagascar, Aug. 2024
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Ravenala grandis, population of characteristic single stemmed individuals invading the deforested slopes at mid altitude in the eastern areas, Beforona, Madagascar, photo Marcel Hladik
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Ravenala grandis, characteristic tall single stemmed individuals in degraded habitat on eastern slopes, Ranomafana, Madagascar, Photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala grandis, population on fragmented inselberg mixed with small Dicot trees, Ifanadiana, Madagascar, Photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala grandis, population in species original type of habitat, fragmented inselberg mixed with small Dicot trees, Ifanadiana, Madagascar, Photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala grandis, population in original species type of habitat, on fragmented inselberg mixed with small Dicot trees belonging to Dilobeia, Tambourissa, Phyllarthron, Phylloxylon, Ifanadiana, Madagascar, Photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala grandis, population in the original species habitat, on fragmented inselberg, characterisic single stemmed individuals mixed with small Dicot trees, Ifanadiana, Madagascar, Photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala grandis, base of the single stipe of an individual anchored on a rock outcrop in fragmented inselberg, the original habitat of this species, Ifanadiana, Madagascar, Photo Patrick Blanc
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Patrick Blanc observing the contractile roots of Ravenala grandis, Beforona, Madagascar, Dec. 1997, photo CM Hladik
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Ravenala grandis, seedling with downward growing thick contractile root similar to a Dicot taproot, Madagascar, Photo Patrick Blanc
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Ravenala grandis, young individual progressively buried in the ground due to the contractile roots, stabilizing the stipe and protecting the shoot apex from recurrent fires, Beforona, Madagascar, Photo Patrick Blanc