Juniperus saxicola

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Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	CONIFEROPSIDA	CONIFERALES	CUPRESSACEAE

Scientific Name:

Juniperus saxicola

Species Authority:

Britton & P. Wilson

Common Name/s:

Spanish

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Sabina

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable D2 ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Conifer Specialist Group

History:

1997

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Not Threatened (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Range Description:	Pico Turquino and adjacent peaks in the Sierra Maesra mountain range in south-east Cuba.
Countries:	Native: Cuba
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Population:	Population numbers are low.

Population:

Population numbers are low.

Habitat and Ecology:	A tree up to 10 m tall, restricted to submontane forest on rocky ridges.
Systems:	Terrestrial

	Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1997. A listing of threatened Cuban trees prepared for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project. Borhidi, A. and Muñiz, O. 1983. Catálogo de Plantas Cubanas Amenazadas o Extinguidas. Acad. Ciencias de Cuba, La Habana. Brito, A.A. 1995. Letter to Wendy Strahm including annotations to: List of threatened trees of Cuba. 1-5. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1997. A listing of threatened Cuban trees prepared for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project.

Borhidi, A. and Muñiz, O. 1983. Catálogo de Plantas Cubanas Amenazadas o Extinguidas. Acad. Ciencias de Cuba, La Habana.

Brito, A.A. 1995. Letter to Wendy Strahm including annotations to: List of threatened trees of Cuba. 1-5.

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

Citation:	Conifer Specialist Group 1998. Juniperus saxicola. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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