Acacia roigii

Threats

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	FABALES	LEGUMINOSAE

Scientific Name:	Acacia roigii
Species Authority:	Leon
Taxonomic Notes:	Recently transferred to Vachellia roigii (León) Seigler & Ebinger.

Red List Category & Criteria:

Critically Endangered B1+2c ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Date Assessed:

1998-01-01

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Areces-Mallea, A.E.

History:

1997

–

Endangered (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Range Description:	Very restricted in range, this endemic tree, is restricted to Puerto Padre in north-eastern Cuba.
Countries:	Native: Cuba
Range Map:	Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.

Habitat and Ecology:	Dry evergreen forests.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Major Threat(s):	The habitat is severely degraded in many places because of cutting, grazing and settlement.

Major Threat(s):

The habitat is severely degraded in many places because of cutting, grazing and settlement.

	Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1997. A listing of threatened Cuban trees prepared for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project. Borhidi, A. 1992. Letter to Hugh Synge concerning conservation status of Cuban plants. Includes annotations to 27 Aug 1991 TPU printout for Cuba. Borhidi, A. and Muñiz, O. 1983. Catálogo de Plantas Cubanas Amenazadas o Extinguidas. Acad. Ciencias de Cuba, La Habana. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1997. A listing of threatened Cuban trees prepared for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project.

Borhidi, A. 1992. Letter to Hugh Synge concerning conservation status of Cuban plants. Includes annotations to 27 Aug 1991 TPU printout for Cuba.

Borhidi, A. and Muñiz, O. 1983. Catálogo de Plantas Cubanas Amenazadas o Extinguidas. Acad. Ciencias de Cuba, La Habana.

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

Citation:	Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. Acacia roigii. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 December 2013.
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