Memecylon sisparense

Threats

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	MYRTALES	MELASTOMATACEAE

Scientific Name:	Memecylon sisparense
Species Authority:	Gamble

Red List Category & Criteria:

Critically Endangered B1+2c ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

–

Indeterminate (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Range Description:	The type locality is in Sispara in the Nilgiri Hills.
Countries:	Native: India (Tamil Nadu)
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Population:	The species has not been found there since it was first discovered. Elsewhere there is an occurrence further south in the Palni Hills.

Population:

The species has not been found there since it was first discovered. Elsewhere there is an occurrence further south in the Palni Hills.

Habitat and Ecology:	Submontane forest (Palni Hills).
Systems:	Terrestrial

Major Threat(s):	It is possible the population has been wiped out by the large-scale conversion of forest to plantation crops.

Major Threat(s):

It is possible the population has been wiped out by the large-scale conversion of forest to plantation crops.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Memecylon sisparense. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 May 2013.
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