Khaya senegalensis

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	SAPINDALES	MELIACEAE

Scientific Name:

Khaya senegalensis

Species Authority:

(Desr.) A. Juss.

Common Name/s:

English

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African Mahogany, Benin Mahogany, Dry Zone Mahogany, Senegal Mahogany

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable A1cd ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

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Not Threatened (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Native: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Côte d'Ivoire; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Sudan; Togo; Uganda
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A mahogany species, widespread in high-rainfall savannah woodland.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Logging and local exploitation are largely uncontrolled and poorly monitored. In northern parts of the range exploitation may be leading to genetic erosion. Natural regeneration from the seed is poor but does occur from suckers

Major Threat(s):

Logging and local exploitation are largely uncontrolled and poorly monitored. In northern parts of the range exploitation may be leading to genetic erosion. Natural regeneration from the seed is poor but does occur from suckers

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Legal protection exists in various countries. Many uses of the tree, particularly the medicinal properties of the bark, are documented.

Conservation Actions:

Legal protection exists in various countries. Many uses of the tree, particularly the medicinal properties of the bark, are documented.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Khaya senegalensis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 June 2013.
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