Couratari guianensis

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	LECYTHIDALES	LECYTHIDACEAE

Scientific Name:

Couratari guianensis

Species Authority:

Aublet

Common Name/s:

English	–	Fine-leaf Wadara
Spanish	–	Cachimbo, Cachimbo Caspi, Capa De Tabaco, Coco Cabuyo

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable A2bcde ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Pires O'Brien, J.

History:

1997

–

Not Threatened (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Native: Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia); Colombia; Costa Rica; French Guiana; Guyana; Panama; Peru; Suriname; Venezuela
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Population [top]

Population:	A widespread timber species which has suffered serious population declines most particularly in Central America and Brazil. However, is reported to still be common in Suriname (P. Teunissen pers. comm. 2006).

Population:

A widespread timber species which has suffered serious population declines most particularly in Central America and Brazil. However, is reported to still be common in Suriname (P. Teunissen pers. comm. 2006).

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Terrestrial

Systems:

Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The timber is overexploitated and the species suffers from habitat loss.

Major Threat(s):

The timber is overexploitated and the species suffers from habitat loss.

Bibliography [top]

	Anonymous. 1991. Estudio Nacional de Biodiversidad. Brako, L. and Zarucchi, J.L. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: 1-1286. Cremers, G. 1994. Annotations to: Threatened plants of French Guiana (South America). Erfurth, T. and Rusche, H. 1976. The marketing of tropical wood. FAO, Rome. Jiménez Madrigal, Q. 1993. Arboles maderables en peligro de extinción en Costa Rica. Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica. Mori, S.A. 1981. Annotations to: List of threatened plants of Middle America. Mori, S.A. et al. 1987. The Lecythidaceae of a lowland neotropical forest: La Fumee Mountain, French Guiana. Memiors of the New York Botanical Garden 44:1-190. O'Brien, P.J. 1996. Data collection forms for Lecythidaceae tree species. O'Brien, P.J. 1996. Data collection forms for Meliaceae species. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

Anonymous. 1991. Estudio Nacional de Biodiversidad.

Brako, L. and Zarucchi, J.L. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: 1-1286.

Cremers, G. 1994. Annotations to: Threatened plants of French Guiana (South America).

Erfurth, T. and Rusche, H. 1976. The marketing of tropical wood. FAO, Rome.

Jiménez Madrigal, Q. 1993. Arboles maderables en peligro de extinción en Costa Rica. Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.

Mori, S.A. 1981. Annotations to: List of threatened plants of Middle America.

Mori, S.A. et al. 1987. The Lecythidaceae of a lowland neotropical forest: La Fumee Mountain, French Guiana. Memiors of the New York Botanical Garden 44:1-190.

O'Brien, P.J. 1996. Data collection forms for Lecythidaceae tree species.

O'Brien, P.J. 1996. Data collection forms for Meliaceae species.

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

Citation:	Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. Couratari guianensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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