Podocarpus angustifolius

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	CONIFEROPSIDA	CONIFERALES	PODOCARPACEAE

Scientific Name:	Podocarpus angustifolius
Species Authority:	Griseb.

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Endangered B1+2c ver 2.3

Year Published:

2000

Assessor/s:

Conifer Specialist Group

History:

1998	–	Critically Endangered (Oldfield et al. 1998)
1997	–	Indeterminate (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Pinar del Río Province and in the mountain ranges of south-central Cuba.
Countries:	Native: Cuba
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A very rare tree, up to 10 m high, occurring in montane rainforest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Its habitat is degraded in places and the species seems particularly vulnerable to ecological impact.

Major Threat(s):

Its habitat is degraded in places and the species seems particularly vulnerable to ecological impact.

Bibliography [top]

	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. Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN red list of threatened species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. Staskiewicz, J. 1988. A taxonomic revision of the genus Podocarpus from the Greater and Lesser Antilles. Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica 33(1): 71-106.

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.

Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN red list of threatened species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

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

Staskiewicz, J. 1988. A taxonomic revision of the genus Podocarpus from the Greater and Lesser Antilles. Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica 33(1): 71-106.

Citation:	Conifer Specialist Group 2000. Podocarpus angustifolius. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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