Manilkara dardanoi

Manilkara dardanoi


Manilkara dardanoi
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Sapotaceae
Genus: Manilkara
Species: M. dardanoi
Binomial name
Manilkara dardanoi
Ducke[2]

Manilkara dardanoi is a tree species in the Sapodilla family. It is endemic to Brazil, and only found in a small portion of Pernambuco. Here it grows in forests mostly along the coast, or elswhere deeper inland where there is old secondary forest. Unfortunately, its natural habitat is gradually disappearing as forest is felled and land is cleared for human settlement.[1]

Sources

  1. ^ a b Assessor: Pires-O'Brien, J. (1998). "Manilkara dardenoi in IUCN 2009". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/35607/0. Retrieved January 20, 2010. 
  2. ^ in An. Bras. Econ. Florest. iii. 243 (1950); cf. Monachino in Phytologia, iv.108 (1952). "Plant Name Details for Manilkara dardanoi". IPNI. http://www.ipni.org:80/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=787618-1. Retrieved December 29, 2009. "Notes: Bras. (Pernambuco)"