Pisonia grandis growing in an urban park in Malaysia.
Pisonia grandis, the grand devil's-claws,[1] is a species of flowering tree in the Bougainvillea family, Nyctaginaceae.
^USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Pisonia grandis". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
Pisoniagrandis, the grand devil's-claws, is a species of flowering tree in the Bougainvillea family, Nyctaginaceae. The tree has broad, thin leaves,...
five ribs. In the Seychelles, the sticky seeds of a related species, Pisoniagrandis, regularly causes seabird deaths, and research suggests that the seeds...
destroying the seedlings of one of the largest remaining Pacific stands of Pisoniagrandis trees. The rats were eliminated in 2012; however, fifty-one animal...
dominated by the flowering tree Cordia subcordata; "Pisonia Forest", consisting of the Pisoniagrandis tree, located in the interior of the larger islets...
Cordia lutea and Waltheria tomentosa appear as low-growing forms. Pisoniagrandis, Premna tahitensis and Morinda citrifolia also grow in the few places...
nucifera) plantation. There are three small woods of catchbird trees (Pisoniagrandis), at Southeast Point, Northwest Point, and on Motu Tabu. The latter...
scrub, low herbs and grasses. Few, if any, of the clumps of stunted Pisoniagrandis once found on the island still survive. Coconut palms planted by the...
subsequently die. A similar sticky-seed killing mechanism has been studied Pisoniagrandis, but was concluded to not be a carnivorous adaptation. Roridula has...
species are common to coastal Indo-Pacific areas, and include the trees Pisoniagrandis, Calophyllum inophyllum, Heliotropium foertherianum, Pandanus tectorius...
groups, but is less species-rich. In the few areas undisturbed by man, Pisoniagrandis palm, heliotropes of the species Heliotropium arboreum (synonyms: Argusia...
cay, occurs near the south eastern corner. Vegetation consists of Pisoniagrandis, Tournefortia argentea, Casuarina equisetifolia, and Pandanus tectorius...
spinosus or Amaranthus viridis) sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and ḷos (Pisoniagrandis), among others, replaced the fish in mas huni in a smaller or greater...
narrow to retain fresh water or too mobile for vegetation to take hold. Pisoniagrandis grows on the island. The waters surrounding the island are particularly...
Scaevola taccada (beach cabbage), Cordia subcordata (sea trumpet), and Pisoniagrandis. Grassland species include Dactyloctenium aegyptium and Tribulus cistoides...
covered with 29 species of plants scrub, grasses and some stands of Pisoniagrandis trees. The first sighting recorded by Europeans was by the Spanish...
arboreum and Pandanus tectorius.: 12 The inner forest is dominated by Pisoniagrandis, Guettarda speciosa, and Coconut, with an underlayer of Tacca leontopetaloides...
birds. It favors tropical forests, especially with Pandanus tectorius, Pisoniagrandis and shrubs, but it has also been recorded from dense shrub growing...
locally as gagu, and the fern Nephrolepsis hirsutula. Small patches of Pisoniagrandis forest can be found on the four younger islands which are free of grazing...
argentea forest. The forest grows more diverse inland, and includes Pisoniagrandis, Pandanus tectorius, Pipturus argenteus, Sesbania coccinea, Cordia...
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