Guarea cedrata

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	SAPINDALES	MELIACEAE

Scientific Name:

Guarea cedrata

Species Authority:

(A. Chev.) Pellegrin

Common Name/s:

English

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Light Bossé, Scented Guarea

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Vulnerable A1c ver 2.3
Year Published:	1998
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor/s:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Reviewer/s:
Contributor/s:

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Native: Cameroon; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Ghana; Liberia; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Uganda
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A timber species found in some abundance in moist semi-deciduous forest and in the drier undisturbed areas of moist evergreen forest. Regeneration is more successful in undisturbed areas where there has been no burning.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Levels of exploitation are moderate and the species often suffers from its similarity to Entandrophragma angolense, resulting in it being harvested with the same intensity.

Major Threat(s):

Levels of exploitation are moderate and the species often suffers from its similarity to Entandrophragma angolense, resulting in it being harvested with the same intensity.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Guarea cedrata. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 May 2013.
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