Banara wilsonii

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	VIOLALES	FLACOURTIACEAE

Scientific Name:	Banara wilsonii
Species Authority:	Alain

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Endangered B1+2c ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Areces-Mallea, A.E.

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

–

Endangered (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	An endemic shrub to the Puerto Padre area of central Cuba.
Countries:	Native: Cuba
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Coastal and subcoastal dry evergreen forests and scrub.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The habitat is severely degraded in many places and the remaining areas continue to be susceptible to cutting and clearing. Development for tourism is the present major threat.

Major Threat(s):

The habitat is severely degraded in many places and the remaining areas continue to be susceptible to cutting and clearing. Development for tourism is the present major threat.

Citation:	Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. Banara wilsonii. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 May 2013.
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