Dalbergia latifolia

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	FABALES	LEGUMINOSAE

Scientific Name:

Dalbergia latifolia

Species Authority:

Roxb.

Common Name/s:

English	–	Bombay Blackwood, Indian Rosewood, Indonesian Rosewood, Malabar Rosewood
French	–	Palisandre De L'Inde

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable A1cd ver 2.3

Year Published:

1998

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Asian Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Viet Nam, August 1996)

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1997

–

Not Threatened (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Native: India (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh); Indonesia (Jawa); Nepal
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Indian rosewood is principally a species of monsoon forests.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Its timber is of high commercial value and wild subpopulations are widely overexploited. Considerable pressure continues to be exerted by illegal felling.

Major Threat(s):

Its timber is of high commercial value and wild subpopulations are widely overexploited. Considerable pressure continues to be exerted by illegal felling.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	The species is protected under the Indian Forest Act, the export of logs or sawn timber being banned.

Conservation Actions:

The species is protected under the Indian Forest Act, the export of logs or sawn timber being banned.

Bibliography [top]

	Balakrishna, P. 1993. Annotations to WCMC printout entitled 'Unresolved India - 534 records'. Includes letter to Kerry S. Walter dated 9 Aug 1993 and annotations to list dated 21 Sep 93. Balakrishna, P. 1993. Letter to Kerry S. Walter with corrections to Conservation Status Listing for India. De Iongh, H., Van Helvoort, B., Sumaryoto, A. and Sutanto, H. 1982. An ecological survey of the Kangean Island archipelago in Indonesia. Ijsselstein. Kumar, A. 1994. Personal communication to M. Read and S. Oldfield. Lamprecht, H. 1989. Silviculture in the tropics. GTZ, Germany. Lemmens, R.H.M.J., Soerianegara, I. and Wong, W.C. (eds) 1995. Timber Trees: Major Commercial Timbers (Plant Resources in South-East Asia, No. 5[2]). Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK. Soerianegara, I. and Lemmens, R.H.M.J. (eds) 1993. Plant Resources of South-East Asia 5(1). Timber trees: major commercial timbers. Pudoc Scientific Publishers, Wageningen.

Balakrishna, P. 1993. Annotations to WCMC printout entitled 'Unresolved India - 534 records'. Includes letter to Kerry S. Walter dated 9 Aug 1993 and annotations to list dated 21 Sep 93.

Balakrishna, P. 1993. Letter to Kerry S. Walter with corrections to Conservation Status Listing for India.

De Iongh, H., Van Helvoort, B., Sumaryoto, A. and Sutanto, H. 1982. An ecological survey of the Kangean Island archipelago in Indonesia. Ijsselstein.

Kumar, A. 1994. Personal communication to M. Read and S. Oldfield.

Lamprecht, H. 1989. Silviculture in the tropics. GTZ, Germany.

Lemmens, R.H.M.J., Soerianegara, I. and Wong, W.C. (eds) 1995. Timber Trees: Major Commercial Timbers (Plant Resources in South-East Asia, No. 5[2]). Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.

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

Soerianegara, I. and Lemmens, R.H.M.J. (eds) 1993. Plant Resources of South-East Asia 5(1). Timber trees: major commercial timbers. Pudoc Scientific Publishers, Wageningen.

Citation:	Asian Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Viet Nam, August 1996) 1998. Dalbergia latifolia. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 June 2013.
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