Ternstroemia luquillensis

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	THEALES	THEACEAE

Scientific Name:

Ternstroemia luquillensis

Species Authority:

Krug & Urban

Common Name/s:

Spanish

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Palo Colorado

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Critically Endangered D ver 2.3

Year Assessed:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

History:

1997

–

Vulnerable (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This small tree is confined to 4–6 sites with a few scattered individuals on slopes. The genus is in the process of being taxonomically revised.
Countries:	Native: Puerto Rico

Population [top]

Population:	There are not many more than 10 individuals in total.

Population:

There are not many more than 10 individuals in total.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Occurring in dwarf elfin forest or upper montane forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The construction of communication towers and a road in the past is likely to have caused a loss of individuals from the original subpopulations.

Major Threat(s):

The construction of communication towers and a road in the past is likely to have caused a loss of individuals from the original subpopulations.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	The plant has proved difficult to grow in cultivation.

Conservation Actions:

The plant has proved difficult to grow in cultivation.

Bibliography [top]

	Anonymous. 1992. Report on the rare plants of Puerto Rico. Center for Plant Conservation, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri. Martorell, L.F., Loigier, A.H. and Woodbury, R.O. 1981. Catálogo de los nombres vulgares y científicos de las plantas de Puerto Rico. Boletin 263, Universidad de Puerto Rico. Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayaguez, Estación Experimental Agrícola. 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).

Anonymous. 1992. Report on the rare plants of Puerto Rico. Center for Plant Conservation, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri.

Martorell, L.F., Loigier, A.H. and Woodbury, R.O. 1981. Catálogo de los nombres vulgares y científicos de las plantas de Puerto Rico. Boletin 263, Universidad de Puerto Rico. Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayaguez, Estación Experimental Agrícola.

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).

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Ternstroemia luquillensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2012.
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