Sideroxylon angustum

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	EBENALES	SAPOTACEAE

Scientific Name:	Sideroxylon angustum
Species Authority:	T.D.Penn.
Taxonomic Notes:	Considered to be a synonym of Sideroxylon acunae (Borhidi) T.D.Penn. by Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. and 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:

Endangered B1+2c ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Areces-Mallea, A.E.

History:

1997

–

Endangered (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Apparently restricted to the serpentine plateau of Sierra de Nipe.
Countries:	Native: Cuba
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Population [top]

Population:	So far it has been collected just three times.

Population:

So far it has been collected just three times.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A shrub or small tree of dry thickets between 300 and 500 m.
Systems:	Terrestrial

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. Sideroxylon angustum. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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