Pterocarpus indicus

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	FABALES	LEGUMINOSAE

Scientific Name:

Pterocarpus indicus

Species Authority:

Willd.

Common Name/s:

English	–	Amboyna Wood, Burmese Rosewood, Red Sandalwood
French	–	Santal Rouge

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable A1d 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]

Range Description:	The Viet Nam subpopulation has been extinct for some 300 years. An extensive forest survey in Sri Lanka has failed to find the species and information on subpopulations in India, Indonesia and the Philippines indicate the species is seriously threatened. Exploitation of the few known stands in Peninsular Malaysia may have caused its extinction there and what are believed to be the largest remaining subpopulations, in New Guinea, are being heavily exploited.
Countries:	Native: Cambodia; India; Indonesia (Bali, Irian Jaya, Jawa, Kalimantan, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Sulawesi, Sumatera); Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah); Myanmar; Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Archipelago, North Solomons); Philippines; Solomon Islands; Sri Lanka; Taiwan, Province of China; Thailand; Vanuatu Regionally extinct: Viet Nam
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A widespread tree found in lowland primary and some secondary forest, mainly along tidal creeks and rocky shores.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Subpopulations have declined because of overexploitation, sometimes illegal exploitation, of the narra timber, as well as from increasing general habitat loss.

Major Threat(s):

Subpopulations have declined because of overexploitation, sometimes illegal exploitation, of the narra timber, as well as from increasing general habitat loss.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Cultivated subpopulations are widely distributed throughout the tropics.

Conservation Actions:

Cultivated subpopulations are widely distributed throughout the tropics.

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