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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
Plantae	Tracheophyta	Cycadopsida	Cycadales	Zamiaceae

Scientific Name:	Encephalartos woodii Sander
Common Name(s): English – Wood's Cycad

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Extinct in the Wild ver 3.1
Year Published:	2010
Date Assessed:	2009-10-31
Assessor(s):	Donaldson, J.S.
Reviewer(s):	Agenbag, L. & Bösenberg, J.D.
Justification: Originally described from a single male plant with multiple stems. No other plants were ever found. Some of the original stems were killed through bark harvesting and the last wild plants had been transferred to botanic gardens by 1916.
Previously published Red List assessments:	2003 – Extinct in the Wild (EW) Download assessment 1998 – Extinct (EX) Download assessment

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	The species is only known from male plants collected in Ngoye Forest, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Countries occurrence:	Regionally extinct: South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)
Additional data:	♦ Estimated area of occupancy (AOO) - km2: 0
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Population [top]

Population:	Extinct in the wild.
Additional data:	♦ Number of mature individuals: 0 ♦ Population severely fragmented: No

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Extinct in the wild.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):

The last remaining stems were all deliberately removed from the wild in 1916.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:

This species is listed on Appendix I of the CITES Appendices. The species is grown in a number of botanical gardens. The area it came from is now a protected area.

Errata [top]

Errata reason:

Corrected the spelling of one of the Reviewers; was in as "B'senberg" instead of "Bösenberg".