Chloroleucon chacoense

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	FABALES	LEGUMINOSAE

Scientific Name:

Chloroleucon chacoense

Species Authority:

(Burk.) Barneby & J.W.Grimes

Common Name/s:

Spanish

–

Palo Barroso, Palo Overo

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable A2c, B1+2ac ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Prado, D.

History:

1997

–

Rare (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	An endemic to a small area of subandean piedmont forest, occurring from north-west Argentina to Paraguay, possibly extending into Bolivia.
Countries:	Native: Argentina (Salta); Bolivia; Paraguay
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Terrestrial

Systems:

Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	It is a notably uncommon tree within a habitat which is unprotected and under constant decline with logging, encroaching agriculture and pastoralism.

Major Threat(s):

It is a notably uncommon tree within a habitat which is unprotected and under constant decline with logging, encroaching agriculture and pastoralism.

Bibliography [top]

	Barneby, R.C. and Grimes, J.W. 1996. Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. Prado, D.E. 1996. Completed data collection forms for trees of Argentina and neighbouring countries. 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).

Barneby, R.C. and Grimes, J.W. 1996. Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York.

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

Prado, D.E. 1996. Completed data collection forms for trees of Argentina and neighbouring countries.

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:	Prado, D. 1998. Chloroleucon chacoense. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012.
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