Alnus acuminata

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	FAGALES	BETULACEAE

Scientific Name:

Alnus acuminata

Species Authority:

Kunth

Common Name/s:

English

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Alder

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Lower Risk/least concern ver 2.3
Year Published:	1998
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor/s:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Distributed from Mexico to the Andes.
Countries:	Native: Argentina; Bolivia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Guatemala; Mexico; Panama; Peru
Range Map:	Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A widespread montane species. It is common in cloud forest and montane rainforest but much of its original habitat in the drier inter-Andean valleys has disappeared over the centuries. They coppice well and regenerate well.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	These trees are an important local source of fuelwood and timber for construction.

Major Threat(s):

These trees are an important local source of fuelwood and timber for construction.

Bibliography [top]

	Brako, L. and Zarucchi, J.L. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: 1-1286. Chebez, Juan Carlos. 1994. Los que se van. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Albatros. D’Arcy, W.G. 1987. Flora of Panama: checklist and index. Monographs in Systematic Botany 17: 1-1000. Estenssoro, S. 1987. Lista preliminar de plantas especiales. Centro de Datos para la Conservación, La Paz. FAO Forestry Department. 1986. Databook on endangered tree and shrub species and their provenances. FAO, Rome. Ibisch, P.L. and Vargas, I. 1997. Comments on the species summaries for Bolivia. Killeen, T. 1997. Comments on the species summaries for Bolivia. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

Brako, L. and Zarucchi, J.L. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: 1-1286.

Chebez, Juan Carlos. 1994. Los que se van. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Albatros.

D’Arcy, W.G. 1987. Flora of Panama: checklist and index. Monographs in Systematic Botany 17: 1-1000.

Estenssoro, S. 1987. Lista preliminar de plantas especiales. Centro de Datos para la Conservación, La Paz.

FAO Forestry Department. 1986. Databook on endangered tree and shrub species and their provenances. FAO, Rome.

Ibisch, P.L. and Vargas, I. 1997. Comments on the species summaries for Bolivia.

Killeen, T. 1997. Comments on the species summaries for Bolivia.

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

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Alnus acuminata. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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