Afzelia pachyloba

Threats

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Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	FABALES	LEGUMINOSAE

Scientific Name:

Afzelia pachyloba

Species Authority:

Harms

Common Name/s:

English

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White Afzelia

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable A1d ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

African Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Zimbabwe, July 1996)

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

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Not Threatened (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Countries:	Native: Angola (Angola); Cameroon; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Gabon; Nigeria
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Habitat and Ecology:	A rainforest species.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Major Threat(s):	Heavily exploited for its commercial timber. Relatively few seed trees remain throughout its range.

Major Threat(s):

Heavily exploited for its commercial timber. Relatively few seed trees remain throughout its range.

Citation:	African Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Zimbabwe, July 1996) 1998. Afzelia pachyloba. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 May 2013.
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