Myristica ceylanica

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	MAGNOLIALES	MYRISTICACEAE

Scientific Name:	Myristica ceylanica
Species Authority:	A. DC.

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Vulnerable B1+2c 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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Endangered (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Native: Sri Lanka
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Population [top]

Population:	It has recently been found in seven forest sites during the extensive forest surveys conducted for the National Conservation Review.

Population:

It has recently been found in seven forest sites during the extensive forest surveys conducted for the National Conservation Review.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	A rare tree confined to remnants of intermediate forest and in drier gallery forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Bibliography [top]

	Green, M.J.B. and Gunawardena, E.R. N. (comps.) 1997. Designing an optimum protected areas system for Sri Lanka's natural forests. Prepared by IUCN-The World Conservation Union and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. (unpublished). Gunatilleke, C.V.S. and I.A.U.N. 1985. A conservation and protection plan for the Sinharaja Forest. Draft. Includes list of plants and their uses and endemism (unpublished). Gunatilleke, I.A.U.N. and Gunatilleke, C.V.S. 1991. Threatened woody endemics of the wet lowlands of Sri Lanka and their conservation. Biological Conservation 55(1): 17-36. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

Green, M.J.B. and Gunawardena, E.R. N. (comps.) 1997. Designing an optimum protected areas system for Sri Lanka's natural forests. Prepared by IUCN-The World Conservation Union and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. (unpublished).

Gunatilleke, C.V.S. and I.A.U.N. 1985. A conservation and protection plan for the Sinharaja Forest. Draft. Includes list of plants and their uses and endemism (unpublished).

Gunatilleke, I.A.U.N. and Gunatilleke, C.V.S. 1991. Threatened woody endemics of the wet lowlands of Sri Lanka and their conservation. Biological Conservation 55(1): 17-36.

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

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Myristica ceylanica. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 June 2013.
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