Manilkara valenzuelana

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	EBENALES	SAPOTACEAE

Scientific Name:	Manilkara valenzuelana
Species Authority:	(A.Rich.) T.D.Penn.

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable B1+2c ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Areces-Mallea, A.E.

History:

1997

–

Vulnerable (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Found in Pinar del Río and Oriente in Cuba. Two localities are recorded in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic. There are also unconfirmed reports of occurrences in Puerto Rico.
Countries:	Native: Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti Presence uncertain: Puerto Rico
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Subpopulations of this tall shrub or tree are found in areas of coastal and subcoastal semi-deciduous forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Declines in the habitat have been large-scale because of logging, charcoal production and increasing settlement.

Major Threat(s):

Declines in the habitat have been large-scale because of logging, charcoal production and increasing settlement.

Bibliography [top]

	Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1997. A listing of threatened Cuban trees prepared for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project. 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).

Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1997. A listing of threatened Cuban trees prepared for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project.

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:	Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. Manilkara valenzuelana. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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