Rutidea nigerica

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	RUBIALES	RUBIACEAE

Scientific Name:	Rutidea nigerica
Species Authority:	Bridson

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Vulnerable B2ab(iii) ver 3.1
Year Published:	2004
Assessor/s:	Cheek, M.
Reviewer/s:	Hilton-Taylor, C. & Pollock, C.M. (Red List Programme Office)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Although it has a fairly wide distribution, this liana is known from only ten localities, at some of which (e.g., Lagos, Kumba) it may very well already be extinct due to forest clearance for agriculture and wood.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Benin; Nigeria: Lagos, Egbada, Benin-Iyek, Akpaka, Ijebu, Idranre; Cameroon, SW Province: Nyasoso, Baduma, Kumba.
Countries:	Native: Benin; Cameroon; Nigeria
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Population [top]

Population Trend:	Unknown

Population Trend:

Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Occurs in lowland forest; 250–800 m alt.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Threatened by forest clearance for agriculture and wood; it is very likely that its habitat has been lost at Lagos and Kumba where there has been extensive forest clearance in recent decades’ as there has been in much of Nigeria.

Major Threat(s):

Threatened by forest clearance for agriculture and wood; it is very likely that its habitat has been lost at Lagos and Kumba where there has been extensive forest clearance in recent decades’ as there has been in much of Nigeria.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	Surveys should be made to attempt to rediscover this species at its known sites, and to evaluate the size of subpopulations, regeneration, local threats and possibilities for conservation. When this data is available it may well be possible and necessary to re-evaluate this taxon under criterion A, at a higher level of threat.

Conservation Actions:

Surveys should be made to attempt to rediscover this species at its known sites, and to evaluate the size of subpopulations, regeneration, local threats and possibilities for conservation. When this data is available it may well be possible and necessary to re-evaluate this taxon under criterion A, at a higher level of threat.

Citation:	Cheek, M. 2004. Rutidea nigerica. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 May 2013.
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