Psidium sintenisii

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	MYRTALES	MYRTACEAE

Scientific Name:

Psidium sintenisii

Species Authority:

(Kiaersk.) Alain

Common Name/s:

Spanish

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Hoja Menuda

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Critically Endangered D 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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Vulnerable (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	A total of three or four very small subpopulations are known, principally in El Yunque.
Countries:	Native: Puerto Rico
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Mossy wet forest on summits and peaks.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	There is no evidence of regeneration.

Major Threat(s):

There is no evidence of regeneration.

Bibliography [top]

	Anonymous. 1992. Report on the rare plants of Puerto Rico. Center for Plant Conservation, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri. Martorell, L.F., Loigier, A.H. and Woodbury, R.O. 1981. Catálogo de los nombres vulgares y científicos de las plantas de Puerto Rico. Boletin 263, Universidad de Puerto Rico. Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayaguez, Estación Experimental Agrícola. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. The Nature Conservancy. 1996. Natural Heritage Central Database. (Status and distribution data on Latin American plants, developed in collaboration with Latin American Conservation Data Centers and Missouri Botanical Garden).

Anonymous. 1992. Report on the rare plants of Puerto Rico. Center for Plant Conservation, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri.

Martorell, L.F., Loigier, A.H. and Woodbury, R.O. 1981. Catálogo de los nombres vulgares y científicos de las plantas de Puerto Rico. Boletin 263, Universidad de Puerto Rico. Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayaguez, Estación Experimental Agrícola.

Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

The Nature Conservancy. 1996. Natural Heritage Central Database. (Status and distribution data on Latin American plants, developed in collaboration with Latin American Conservation Data Centers and Missouri Botanical Garden).

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Psidium sintenisii. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 May 2013.
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