Acalypha cardielii I. Montero & G. A. Levin
Bibliographic record
Abstract
9. Acalypha cardielii I.Montero & G.A.Levin South African Journal of Botany 146: 636 (Montero Muñoz et al. 2022). — Type: Madagascar. Melaky region (Mahajanga prov.), Tsingy du Bemaraha, 1932-1933, J. Leandri 115 (holo-, P [P00887484]; iso-, P [P05547055]). ICONOGRAPHY. — Montero Muñoz et al. (2022); Fig. 25F. ETYMOLOGY. — The epithet honors Dr. José María Cardiel, codirector of the first author’s PhD dissertation. He has published extensively about the genus and has contributed to worldwide Acalypha knowledge. DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. — Endemic to Madagascar (Melaky). Dry deciduous forest. On limestone. Altitude c. 360 m (Fig. 22). PRELIMINARY CONSERVATION ASSESSMENT. — Acalypha cardielii is only known from one collection from the Tsingy de Bemaraha. Its EOO could not be calculated; its AOO is estimated to be 8 km 2. The Tsingy de Bemaraha lies within a national park and a nature reserve that have been IUCN category II and Ia protected areas since 1927, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990. The forest of this area has local anthropogenic pressures such as fire associated with the renewal of zebu (cattle) pastures, logging for construction, and deforestation for new agricultural lands, resulting in loss of forest cover during the last decade (Dudley 2008; Goodman et al. 2018). No specimens of this species have been collected for 88 years, so we cannot rule out that this species has become extinct. In conclusion, due to habitat loss, the restricted geographic range, and the absence of recent collections, A. cardielii is assigned a preliminary conservation status of Critically Endangered: CR B2ab(ii,iii) (probably EX). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 1 collection. Madagascar: Leandri, J. 115 (P[P05547055, P00887484]). DESCRIPTION Shrubs, probably deciduous, height unknown, monoecious. Branches whitish, pubescent with simple, curved, antrorse trichomes, glabrescent when mature. Axillary buds spherical, to 1 mm diameter, perulate, perules 2, imbricated, chartaceous, dark brown, glabrous. Stipules to 1 mm long, triangular-lanceolate, apex acute, sparsely hairy with simple, short trichomes, margin with some sessile glands. Petioles canaliculate, 0.5-1.5(-2) cm long, indumentum similar to that on young branches. Leaf blades 1.8-2.6(-3) × 1.1-1.6 cm, subrhombic, membranous; base acute; apex obtuse to retuse; margin crenate-serrate, revolute, reddish, teeth rounded; upper surface sparsely hairy with some simple, short trichomes; lower surface glabrous; venation actinodromous, basal veins 3, secondary veins 3-4 per side. Stipels glandular, to 0.2 mm long, glabrous. Inflorescences spiciform, androgynous and male, axillary. Androgynous inflorescences to 5.5 cm long, mostly male with short female segment; peduncle to 15 mm long, it and rachis with indumentum similar to that on petioles. Female segment to 2.5 cm long; bracts 2, sessile, enlarging in fruit to 8 × 6 mm, reniform, glabrous; margin crenate, teeth 6-12, rounded, central tooth not prominent; bracteoles absent. Male segment persistent, to 2.5 cm long; flowers glomerate; bracts to 1 mm long, elliptic-lanceolate, glabrous. Male inflorescences laxly flowered, to 3.5 cm long; subsessile, peduncle to 0.3 mm long; bracts like those on androgynous inflorescences. Male flowers: pedicel to 0.5 mm long, sparsely hairy; buds to 0.5 mm diameter, glabrous. Female flowers 1 per bract, sessile; sepals 3, to 1 mm long, triangular-lanceolate, glabrous, margin with some sessile glands; ovary c. 1 mm diameter, 3-lobed, papillose-hispid, papillae acute, ending in simple trichome to 0.5 mm long, surface with some subsessile glandular trichomes; styles 3, to 4 mm long, distinct, glabrous, each divided into 7-9 segments. Allomorphic flowers sometimes present at inflorescence apex; pedicel filiform, to 1.5 cm long, glabrous; sepals 3, similar to those of normal flowers; ovary 1-lobed, to 2 × 1.5 mm, sparsely hairy, distally fimbriate; style 1, to 4 mm long, glabrous. Capsules to 2 mm diameter, papillose-hispid, papillae triangular. ending in simple trichome to 1 mm long, surface glabrous. Seeds not seen.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".