Shorea trapezifolia

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	THEALES	DIPTEROCARPACEAE

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

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Critically Endangered A1cd ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Ashton, P.

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

–

Rare (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Native: Sri Lanka
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Population [top]

Population:	Regeneration is good where selective logging is taking place. No populations were 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:

Regeneration is good where selective logging is taking place. No populations were 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:	This tree is found in fragments of lowland and sometimes highland wet evergreen forest, usually on deep soils.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Most of the habitat has been converted into plantations, resulting in the species becoming localised. The timber is harvested mainly for plywood.

Major Threat(s):

Most of the habitat has been converted into plantations, resulting in the species becoming localised. The timber is harvested mainly for plywood.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	It forms one of the dominant components of the canopy in the protected area at Sinharaja.

Conservation Actions:

It forms one of the dominant components of the canopy in the protected area at Sinharaja.

Citation:	Ashton, P. 1998. Shorea trapezifolia. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 May 2013.
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