Buxus nyasica

Threats

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	EUPHORBIALES	BUXACEAE

Scientific Name:	Buxus nyasica
Species Authority:	Hutch.

Red List Category & Criteria:

Endangered B1+2ac ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

–

Indeterminate (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Range Description:	A Malawi endemic known from two forest reserves 70 km apart. Near Blantyre the species occurs on Mt. Soche in a forest that has been reduced to 1.5 km² and continues to suffer from illegal logging. A subpopulation also occurs on Mt. Chese in the Mulanje Massif, where the forest is also much reduced.
Countries:	Native: Malawi
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Systems:	Terrestrial

Systems:

Terrestrial

Major Threat(s):	Illegal logging and encroaching agriculture.

Major Threat(s):

Illegal logging and encroaching agriculture.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Buxus nyasica. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 June 2013.
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