Cedrela odorata

– Vulnerable

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

PLANTAE

Phylum:

TRACHEOPHYTA

Class:

MAGNOLIOPSIDA

Order:

SAPINDALES

Family:

MELIACEAE

Scientific Name:

Cedrela odorata

Species Authority:

Common Name/s:

English	—	CIGAR-BOX WOOD, RED CEDAR, SPANISH CEDAR
French	—	ACAJOU ROUGE, ACAJOU-BOIS, CEDRAT
Spanish	—	CEDRO ROJO

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

VU A1cd+2cd ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1998

Assessor/s:

Americas Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Costa Rica, November 1996)

History:

1997

Not Threatened (Walter and Gillett 1998)

Geographic Range

Range Description:	Large individuals have become scarce, especially in Amazonia.
Countries:	Native: Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Barbados; Belize; Bolivia; Brazil; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; El Salvador; French Guiana; Grenada; Guadeloupe (Guadeloupe); Guatemala; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Mexico (Quintana Roo); Montserrat; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Suriname; Venezuela

Habitat and Ecology

Habitat and Ecology:	One of the world's most important timber species. It occurs in humid or dry lowland forest, preferring well-drained soils.
System:	Terrestrial

Threats

Threats:

Exploitation has continued on a large scale over the past 200 years and the species is now widely threatened at the provenance level. Trees are often cut opportunistically while other species, such as mahogany, Amburana and Machaerium, are being sought-after. Natural regeneration is generally good, but there are reports of trees being felled before they reach maturity.

List of Threats:

1.3.3.2

Habitat Loss/Degradation - Extraction - Wood - Selective logging (ongoing)

Conservation Actions

Conservation Actions:

Subpopulations are protected within national parks and agricultural landscapes. Attempts are being made to establish plantations throughout the tropics.

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Asociación Nacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza. 1990. List of threatened and vulnerable plants of Panama (unpublished).

Centro de Datos para la Conservación-CDC-CVC. 1980. Lista preliminar de plantas especiales del Centro de Datos para la conservación, CDC-CVC (unpublished).

D’Arcy, W.G. 1987. Flora of Panama: checklist and index. Monographs in Systematic Botany 17: 1-1000.

Erfurth, T. and Rusche, H. 1976. The marketing of tropical wood. FAO, Rome.

FAO Forestry Department. 1986. Databook on endangered tree and shrub species and their provenances. FAO, Rome.

García, R.D. and Olmsted, I. 1987. Listado florístico de la Reserva Sian Ka'an. Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Howard, R.A. (ed.) 1974. Flora of the Lesser Antilles; Leeward and Windward Islands. Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 6 vols, 1974-1989.

Howard, R.A. Ferns and flowering plants of Montserrat (unpublished).

Jiménez, J. 1978. Lista tentativa de plantas de la República Dominicana que deben protegerse para evitar su extinción. Coloquio Internacional sobre la practica de la conservación, Santo Domingo. CIBIMA/UASD.

Killeen, T. 1997. Comments on the species summaries for Bolivia.

Pennington, T.D. 1981. Flora Neotropica: Meliaceae. Monograph 28. New York Botanical Garden, New York.

Proctor, G.R. 1984. Flora of the Cayman Islands. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: London, HMSO.

Reynel, C. and Pennington, T. 1989. Reporte sobre los cedros y su situación en el Perú, una contribucción al conocimiento y la conservación de las Meliáceas peruanas. Universidad Nacional Agaria La Molina, Centro de Datos Para la Conservación Perú, Lima.

WCMC. (comp.) 1996. Report of the Second Regional Workshop, held at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica, 18-20 November 1996. Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project (unpublished).

Citation:	Americas Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Costa Rica) 1998. Cedrela odorata. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 September 2008.
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