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Sauropus assimilis Thwaites

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Missing

Last record: before 1991

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered

 

Distribution

Sinharaja Biosphere Reserve, Sri Lanka (south-western)

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Abeywickrama, B.A. 1990. The threatened plants of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka: NARESA. UNESCO - Man and the Biosphere National Committee for Sri Lanka.

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 (unpublished).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, 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, Sara, Lusty, Charlotte and MacKinven, Amy (compilers). (1998). The World List of Threatened Trees. Cambridge, U.K.: World Conservation Press. 650 pp.

Wijesinghe, L.C.A., Gunatilleke, I.A.U.N., Jayawardana, S.D.G., Kotagama, S.W. and Gunatilleke, C.V.S. 1990. Biological conservation in Sri Lanka (A national status report). Colombo Natural Resources, Energy and Science Authority of Sri Lanka.

World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1998. Sauropus assimilis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1998: e.T32550A9714815. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T32550A9714815.en. Downloaded on 19 November 2016.

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