Tabebuia dubia

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	SCROPHULARIALES	BIGNONIACEAE

Scientific Name:	Tabebuia dubia
Species Authority:	(C. Wright ex Sauvalle) Britton ex Seibert

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

–

Rare (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Found in the Nipe-Baracoa Massif.
Countries:	Native: Cuba
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A canopy tree found mainly in montane serpentine rainforest thriving on acid ferralitic soils.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The species is not yet uncommon but overexploitation and habit disturbance have caused a decline in numbers. Logging, cutting and mining are constant threats.

Major Threat(s):

The species is not yet uncommon but overexploitation and habit disturbance have caused a decline in numbers. Logging, cutting and mining are constant threats.

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. 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.

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