Trichilia pungens

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	SAPINDALES	MELIACEAE

Scientific Name:

Trichilia pungens

Species Authority:

Urban

Common Name/s:

Spanish

–

Ebano Amarillo

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Endangered B1+2c ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Areces-Mallea, A.E.

History:

1997

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Vulnerable (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Found in northern Camaguey, Las Tunas and Holguín Provinces.
Countries:	Native: Cuba
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A shrub or small tree recorded only from coastal dry forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The habitat has suffered severe degradation in most places. A major present threat is development for tourism in the Tunas-Holguin coastal area.

Major Threat(s):

The habitat has suffered severe degradation in most places. A major present threat is development for tourism in the Tunas-Holguin coastal area.

Bibliography [top]

	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. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. Pennington, T.D. 1981. Flora Neotropica: Meliaceae. Monograph 28. New York Botanical Garden, New York. 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).

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.

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

Pennington, T.D. 1981. Flora Neotropica: Meliaceae. Monograph 28. New York Botanical Garden, New York.

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