Chaetocarpus pubescens

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	EUPHORBIALES	EUPHORBIACEAE

Scientific Name:	Chaetocarpus pubescens
Species Authority:	(Thwaites) Hook.f.

Assessment Information [top]

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

–

Endangered (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

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

Population:	This species was not rediscovered during the comprehensive National Conservation Review forest surveys, suggesting it is either extremely rare or possibly extinct.

Population:

This species was not rediscovered during the comprehensive National Conservation Review forest surveys, suggesting it is either extremely rare or possibly extinct.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A tree confined to lowland rainforest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Chaetocarpus pubescens. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2013.
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