Acacia belairioides

Threats

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	FABALES	LEGUMINOSAE

Scientific Name:	Acacia belairioides
Species Authority:	Urb.
Taxonomic Notes:	Has recently been transferred to Vachellia belairioides (Urb.) Seigler & Ebinger. Also sometimes treated under the genus Feracacia.

Red List Category & Criteria:

Critically Endangered B1+2c ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Areces-Mallea, A.E.

History:

1997

–

Indeterminate (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Range Description:	Confined to Holguín in north-eastern Cuba.
Countries:	Native: Cuba
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Population:	A very rare tree.

Population:

A very rare tree.

Habitat and Ecology:	Serpentine outcrop.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Major Threat(s):	The habitat is severely degraded in most places, mainly due to grazing and urbanisation.

Major Threat(s):

The habitat is severely degraded in most places, mainly due to grazing and urbanisation.

	Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1997. A listing of threatened Cuban trees prepared for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project. Brito, A.A. 1995. Letter to Wendy Strahm including annotations to: List of threatened trees of Cuba. 1-5. Jardin Botánico Nacional, Havana, Cuba (HAJB). 1988. Returned questionnaire: rare and threatened plants of Cuba. 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.

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

Jardin Botánico Nacional, Havana, Cuba (HAJB). 1988. Returned questionnaire: rare and threatened plants of Cuba.

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

Citation:	Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. Acacia belairioides. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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