Couratari prancei

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	LECYTHIDALES	LECYTHIDACEAE

Scientific Name:	Couratari prancei
Species Authority:	W. Rodrigues

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Critically Endangered B1+2d ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Pires O'Brien, J.

History:

1997

–

Rare (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Occurs in Acre and eastern Peru.
Countries:	Native: Brazil (Acre); Peru
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Population [top]

Population:	A rarely collected species.

Population:

A rarely collected species.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Non-flooded forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The area is threatened by increasing land settlement.

Major Threat(s):

The area is threatened by increasing land settlement.

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. O'Brien, P.J. 1996. Data collection forms for Lecythidaceae tree species. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. 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.

O'Brien, P.J. 1996. Data collection forms for Lecythidaceae tree species.

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

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:	Pires O'Brien, J. 1998. Couratari prancei. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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