Diospyros crassiflora

Threats

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	EBENALES	EBENACEAE

Scientific Name:

Species Authority:

Hiern

Common Name/s:

English

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Ebony

Synonym/s:

Diospyros ampullacea Gürke

Diospyros evila Pierre ex A.Chev.

Diospyros incarnata Gürke ex De Wild.

Red List Category & Criteria:

Endangered 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: Cameroon; Central African Republic; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Gabon; Nigeria
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Habitat and Ecology:	Lowland rainforest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Major Threat(s):	Virtually all large trees of this species have been felled for the ebony wood, except perhaps in the most remote parts of its range.

Major Threat(s):

Virtually all large trees of this species have been felled for the ebony wood, except perhaps in the most remote parts of its range.

Citation:	African Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Zimbabwe, July 1996) 1998. Diospyros crassiflora. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 May 2013.
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