Pouteria splendens

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	EBENALES	SAPOTACEAE

Scientific Name:

Pouteria splendens

Species Authority:

(A.DC.) Kuntze

Common Name/s:

Spanish

–

Lucumo

Taxonomic Notes:

This is considered to be a synonym of Pouteria valparadisaea (Molina) ined. by Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Pennington, D. 2001 publ. 2002. World Checklist and Bibliography of Sapotaceae: 1-364. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Lower Risk/near threatened ver 2.3

Year Assessed:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

History:

1997

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Vulnerable (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	A morphologically distinct member of the genus, confined to the coastal regions of central Chile.
Countries:	Native: Chile (Valparaíso)

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Occurs in rocky ravines and coastal scrub.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Bibliography [top]

	Benoit, C. and Ivan, L. (eds) 1989. Libro Rojo de la Flora Terrestre de Chile. Impresora Creces Ltd, Santiago. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. Pennington, T.D. 1990. Flora Neotropica: Sapotaceae Monograph 52. The 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).

Benoit, C. and Ivan, L. (eds) 1989. Libro Rojo de la Flora Terrestre de Chile. Impresora Creces Ltd, Santiago.

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

Pennington, T.D. 1990. Flora Neotropica: Sapotaceae Monograph 52. The 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:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Pouteria splendens. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2012.
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