Dombeya acutangula

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Dombeya acutangula 02.JPG

|status = CR

|status_system = IUCN2.3

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Tezoo, V. (TPTNC). |author2=Strahm, W. |date=2020 |title=Dombeya acutangula |volume=2020 |page=e.T39440A183184047 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T39440A183184047.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

|genus = Dombeya

|species = acutangula

|authority = Cav. (1787)

|synonyms = {{collapsible list|bullets=true

|title={{small|Synonymy}}

|Assonia angulata {{small|(Cav.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 76 (1891)}}

|Assonia botryoides {{small|(Baker) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 76 (1891)}}

|Assonia greveana {{small|(Baill.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 76 (1891)}}

|Assonia palmata {{small|Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 76 (1891)}}

|Assonia rubifolia {{small|(Baill.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 76 (1891)}}

|Assonia stuhlmannii {{small|(K.Schum.) Kuntze in Deutsche Bot. Monatsschr. 21: 173 (1903)}}

|Assonia tiliifolia {{small|Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 76 (1891)}}

|Assonia triumfettifolia {{small|(Bojer) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 76 (1891)}}

|Astrapaea tiliifolia {{small|(Cav.) Sweet in Hort. Brit.: 58 (1826)}}

|Cavanilla acutangula {{small|(Cav.) J.F.Gmel. (1792)}}

|Cavanilla angulata {{small|(Cav.) J.F.Gmel. in Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis].: 1037 (1792)}}

|Cavanilla palmata {{small|J.F.Gmel. in Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis].: 1037 (1792)}}

|Cavanilla tiliifolia {{small|J.F.Gmel. in Syst. Nat., ed. 13[bis].: 1037 (1792)}}

|Dombeya acutangula var. palmata {{small|(Cav.) Arènes in Mém. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Sér. B, Biol. Vég. 9: 198 (1959)}}

|Dombeya acutangula subsp. rosea {{small|F.Friedmann in Adansonia, n.s., 20: 445 (1981)}}

|Dombeya acutangula var. tiliifolia {{small|(Cav.) Arènes in Mém. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Sér. B, Biol. Vég. 9: 198 (1959)}}

|Dombeya angulata {{small|Cav. in Diss. 3: 123 (1787)}}

|Dombeya borraginopsis {{small|Hochr. in Candollea 3: 22 (1926)}}

|Dombeya botryoides {{small|Baker in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 25: 298 (1889)}}

|Dombeya cincinnata {{small|K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas, C: 271 (1895)}}

|Dombeya cincinnata var. stuhlmannii {{small|(K.Schum.) K.Schum. in H.G.A.Engler, Monogr. Afrik. Pflanzen-Fam. 5: 32 (1900)}}

|Dombeya cordifolia {{small|DC. in Prodr. 1: 499 (1824)}}

|Dombeya greveana {{small|Baill. in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 492 (1885)}}

|Dombeya greveana var. metameropsis {{small|(Hochr.) Arènes in Candollea 16: 301 (1958)}}

|Dombeya leucorrhoea {{small|K.Schum. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 30: 353 (1901)}}

|Dombeya metameropsis {{small|Hochr. in Candollea 3: 22 (1926)}}

|Dombeya metameropsis var. belambanensis {{small|Hochr. in Candollea 3: 68 (1926)}}

|Dombeya metameropsis var. kitombaensis {{small|Hochr. in Candollea 3: 67 (1926)}}

|Dombeya metameropsis var. typica {{small|Hochr. in Candollea 3: 67 (1926), not validly publ.}}

|Dombeya palmata {{small|Cav. in Diss. 3: 122 (1787)}}

|Dombeya palmatiformis {{small|Arènes in Mém. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Sér. B, Biol. Vég. 9: 209 (1960)}}

|Dombeya quinquecostata {{small|Arènes in Candollea 16: 298 (1958)}}

|Dombeya rubifolia {{small|Baill. in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 492 (1885)}}

|Dombeya stuhlmannii {{small|K.Schum. in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 2: 302 (1899)}}

|Dombeya tiliifolia {{small|Cav. in Diss. 3: 124 (1787)}}

|Dombeya triumfettifolia {{small|Bojer in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 2, 18: 191 (1842)}}

|Dombeya urenoides {{small|Hochr. in Candollea 3: 21 (1926)}}

|Pentapetes acutangula {{small|(Cav.) Poir. (1804)}}

|Pentapetes angulosa {{small|Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 5: 155 (1804)}}

|Pentapetes palmata {{small|(Cav.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 5: 154 (1804)}}

|Pentapetes tiliifolia {{small|(Cav.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 5: 156 (1804)}}

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|synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:822892-1 Dombeya acutangula Cav.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 June 2023.

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Dombeya acutangula, the bois bete or mahot tantan, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is native to the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodrigues), and Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.

It has charming pale (white or light pink) flowers in small clusters.

On Mauritius it grows in forests from 300 to 500 meters elevation. It is almost extinct on the island due to habitat loss; some 50 plants remain in the wild, growing in a narrowly circumscribed area at Corps de garde, Trois Mamelles, Yemen, Magenta and Chamarel.Tezoo & Strahm (2000)