Inga yasuniana
Taxonomy [top]
| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| PLANTAE | TRACHEOPHYTA | MAGNOLIOPSIDA | FABALES | LEGUMINOSAE |
| Scientific Name: | Inga yasuniana |
| Species Authority: | T.D. Penn. |
Assessment Information [top]
| Red List Category & Criteria: | Vulnerable B1ab(iii) ver 3.1 | |||
| Year Published: | 2004 | |||
| Assessor/s: | Neill, D. & Pitman, N. | |||
| Reviewer/s: | Valencia, R., Pitman, N., Léon-Yánez, S. & Jørgensen, P.M. (Ecuador Plants Red List Authority) | |||
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Justification: A tree endemic to Amazonian Ecuador, where it is known from two sites in the buffer area of the Parque Nacional Yasuní, in land belonging to the Quichua community of Pompeya, between the Napo and Tiputini rivers along the pipeline road. Probably protected inside Yasuní park, but apparently very rare; quantitative inventories of 200,000 stems in Yasuní failed to turn up a single individual of this distinctive species (N. Pitman et al., H. Romero-Saltos et al., R. Valencia et al., unpublished data). Seeds obtained from a tree in Pompeya have been planted in silvicultural experiments in the Jatun Sacha private reserve. Apart from habitat destruction, no specific threats are known. |
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Geographic Range [top]
| Range Description: | Yasuní National Park. Altitude of 200–250 m. |
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Native:
Ecuador
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Habitat and Ecology [top]
| Habitat and Ecology: | An understorey tree, known only from non-flooded lowland rainforest. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
Bibliography [top]
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IUCN. 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 23 November 2004. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. Pennington, T.D. 1997. The genus Inga. The Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. |
| Citation: | Neill, D. & Pitman, N. 2004. Inga yasuniana. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012. |
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