Abarema villifera

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Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
PLANTAE	TRACHEOPHYTA	MAGNOLIOPSIDA	FABALES	LEGUMINOSAE

Scientific Name:	Abarema villifera
Species Authority:	(Ducke) Barneby & J.W.Grimes

Red List Category & Criteria:	Lower Risk/near threatened ver 2.3
Year Published:	1998
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor/s:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre
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Range Description:	A tree localised to the upper tributaries of the Río Negro in Venezuela. An unconfirmed variant of the species is also found growing in terra firme forest in the lower Río Negro basin in Brazil.
Countries:	Native: Brazil (Amazonas); Venezuela
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Habitat and Ecology:	Periodically inundated riparian forest.
Systems:	Terrestrial

	Barneby, R.C. and Grimes, J.W. 1996. Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York. Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

Barneby, R.C. and Grimes, J.W. 1996. Silk Tree, Guanacaste, Monkey's Earring. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York.

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. Abarema villifera. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 22 May 2013.
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