Gomortega keule

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	LAURALES	GOMORTEGACEAE

Scientific Name:

Gomortega keule

Species Authority:

(Molina) Baill.

Common Name/s:

Spanish

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Keule, Queule

Synonym/s:

Lucuma keule Molina

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Endangered A1cd ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

González, M.

History:

1997

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Endangered (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	A species of taxonomic interest, belonging to an ancient monotypic family. It is known from a very restricted distribution in the Coastal Cordillera of central Chile.
Countries:	Native: Chile (Biobío, Maule)
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Occurring in forest on the south-facing slopes of humid ravines.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The subpopulations are unprotected and under threat from logging and forest management activities, fire and agricultural encroachment.

Major Threat(s):

The subpopulations are unprotected and under threat from logging and forest management activities, fire and agricultural encroachment.

Bibliography [top]

	González Cangas, Mauro. 1996. Completed data collection forms for tree species of Chile. Holden, C. 1980. Rain forests vanishing. Science 208(4442): 378. 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).

González Cangas, Mauro. 1996. Completed data collection forms for tree species of Chile.

Holden, C. 1980. Rain forests vanishing. Science 208(4442): 378.

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:	González, M. 1998. Gomortega keule. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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