Shorea ovalifolia

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	THEALES	DIPTEROCARPACEAE

Scientific Name:	Shorea ovalifolia
Species Authority:	(Thwaites) P.S. Ashton
Synonym/s:	Doona ovalifolia Thwaites

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Critically Endangered A1cd, C2a ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Ashton, P.

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

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Endangered (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	South-east Sri Lanka.
Countries:	Native: Sri Lanka
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Population [top]

Population:	This tree was not found during the extensive forest surveys conducted between 1991 and 1996 for the National Conservation Review, suggesting that the species is either extremely rare or possibly extinct.

Population:

This tree was not found during the extensive forest surveys conducted between 1991 and 1996 for the National Conservation Review, suggesting that the species is either extremely rare or possibly extinct.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A dipterocarp, confined to lowland and hill wet evergreen forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Close to extinction because of the loss of its habitat.

Major Threat(s):

Close to extinction because of the loss of its habitat.

Citation:	Ashton, P. 1998. Shorea ovalifolia. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2013.
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