Gustavia foliosa

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	LECYTHIDALES	LECYTHIDACEAE

Scientific Name:	Gustavia foliosa
Species Authority:	Cuatrecasa

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable B1+2c ver 2.3

Year Assessed:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

History:

1997

–

Endangered (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Occurring on the Pacific coast, the species has been collected twice in Valle in Colombia and Esmeraldas in Ecuador.
Countries:	Native: Colombia; Ecuador

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Lowland non-flooded forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Bibliography [top]

	Mori, S.A., Prance, G.T. and Zeeuw. C. 1990. Flora Neotropica: Lecythidaceae - Part II: The zygomorphic-flowered New World genera (Couroupita, Corythophora, Bertholletia, Couratari, Eschweilera, and Lecythis). Monograph 21(II). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. Prance, G.T. and Mori, S. 1979. Lecythidaceae - Part I. The actinomorphic-flowered New World Lecythidaceae (Asteranthus, Gustavia, Grias, Allantoma and Cariniana). 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).

Mori, S.A., Prance, G.T. and Zeeuw. C. 1990. Flora Neotropica: Lecythidaceae - Part II: The zygomorphic-flowered New World genera (Couroupita, Corythophora, Bertholletia, Couratari, Eschweilera, and Lecythis). Monograph 21(II). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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

Prance, G.T. and Mori, S. 1979. Lecythidaceae - Part I. The actinomorphic-flowered New World Lecythidaceae (Asteranthus, Gustavia, Grias, Allantoma and Cariniana).

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. Gustavia foliosa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2012.
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