Sophora toromiro

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Conservation Actions

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	FABALES	LEGUMINOSAE

Scientific Name:

Sophora toromiro

Species Authority:

(Phil.) Skottsb.

Common Name/s:

English

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Toromiro

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct in the Wild ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

History:

1997	–	Endangered (Walter and Gillett 1998)
1978	–	Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Regionally extinct: Chile (Easter Is.)
Range Map:	Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.

Population [top]

Population:	The last wild specimen was a plant in Rano Kao in 1935.

Population:

The last wild specimen was a plant in Rano Kao in 1935.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Terrestrial

Systems:

Terrestrial

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	A few plants still exist in cultivation in botanic gardens but attempts at reintroduction of the species on Easter Island have failed.

Conservation Actions:

A few plants still exist in cultivation in botanic gardens but attempts at reintroduction of the species on Easter Island have failed.

Bibliography [top]

	HMSO. 1. Index Kewensis plantarum phanerogamarum. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Lucas, G.L.l. and Synge, H. (compilers) 1978. The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. IUCN, Morges, Switzerland. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. The Nature Conservancy. 1996. Natural Heritage Central Database. (Status and distribution data on Latin American plants, developed in collaboration with Latin American Conservation Data Centers and Missouri Botanical Garden). Zizka, G. 1991. Flowering plants of Easter Island. Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

HMSO. 1. Index Kewensis plantarum phanerogamarum. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Lucas, G.L.l. and Synge, H. (compilers) 1978. The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. IUCN, Morges, Switzerland.

Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

The Nature Conservancy. 1996. Natural Heritage Central Database. (Status and distribution data on Latin American plants, developed in collaboration with Latin American Conservation Data Centers and Missouri Botanical Garden).

Zizka, G. 1991. Flowering plants of Easter Island. Palmengarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Sophora toromiro. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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