Cedrela fissilis

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Genus Cedrela

Tall trees . Leaves pinnate; leaflets entire to serrate, somewhat oblique . Flowers small, in terminal and sub-terminal panicles. Calyx short, 5-parted. Petals 5, free . Stamens 4-6, free; staminodes present or absent. Disc thick, lobed . Ovary 5-locular; stigma capitate. Fruit a septifragal capsule. Seeds many, winged .

A genus of about 16 species, with a wide distribution in tropical Asia, Mexico to S. America and Australia.[1]

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [2].

Ecology: Lowland forest types.[2].

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Surenus fissilis Kuntze

Notes

Publishing author : Vell. Publication : Fl. Flumin. 75 1829 [1825 publ. 7 Sep-28 Nov 1829]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Cedrela

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. fissilis (Central American Cedar) · C. lilloi (Atoc Cedro) · C. mahagoni (Small-Leaved Mahogany) · C. odorata (Cigar-Box Wood) · C. sinensis (Chinese Cedrela)

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Further Reading

• A century of trees of Panama / described by H. Pittier and C.D. Mell. [1931?] url p. 68.
• A revision of Cedrela (Meliaceae) 29 1960 Chicago. Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1960. url map 2 , map 5 , p. 11, p. 305, p. 306, p. 308, p. 310, p. 312, p. 321, p. 322, p. 323, p. 324, p. 325, p. 333, p. 334, p. 335, p. 336, p. 341.
• American forests. Washington [etc.]American Forestry Association [etc.] url p. 724, p. 726.
• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York, New York Academy of Sciences. url p. 70.
• Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 294.
• Bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1913. url p. 71.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1913 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 210, p. 421.
• Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., url p. 234.
• Conservation and sustainable management of trees, report of the second regional workshop, held at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica, 18-20 November 1996 WCMC url p. 56.
• Contribution to an evaluation of tree species using the new CITES Listing Criteria CITES url p. 178, p. 180, p. 436, p. 7.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 27 1928 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 225, p. 25.
• Fifty years of botany; golden jubilee volume of the Botanical Society of America, edited by William Campbell Steere. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1958. url p. 314.
• Flora of Costa Rica. .. by Paul C. Standley. .. 18 1937 Chicago, 1937. url p. 578.
• Flora of Guatemala: families Leguminosae, Geraniaceae, Oxalidaceae, Tropaeolaceae, Linaceae, Erythroxylaceae, Zygophyllaceae, Rutaceae, Simaroubaceae, Burseraceae, Meliaceae, and Malpighiaceae / by Paul C. Standley and Julian A. Steyermark. 24 1946 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1946. url p. 449.
• Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1949 Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1949] url p. 721.
• Global Biodiversity: status of the Earth's living resources WCMC url p. 347.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1992 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 1262, p. 672, p. 800, p. 808.
• Guide to the Economic Museum of the New York Botanical Garden. New York, 1921. url p. 234.
• Hardwood record. Chicago: Hardwood Co., 1902-1939. url p. 21.
• IUCN Directory of Neotropical Protected Areas IUCN url p. 91.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 12-13 1992-1993 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 246.
• Journal of forestry. Washington: Society of American Foresters, 1917- url p. 3.
• Mammals of Panama (with thirty-nine plates) by Edward A. Goldman. City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1920. url p. 273.
• New and little known trees suitable for Southern California avenues [by] Dr. C.F. Franceschi. .. [Claremont, Cal.]1911. url p. 207, p. 208.
• Pamphlets on forestry in California. [1900?- url p. 34.
• Pamphlets on silviculture. [1899- url p. 1169, p. 74.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 110.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 60.
• Rare Tropical Timbers IUCN url p. 7, p. 9.
• Report on the forests of British East Africa. LondonPrinted for His Majesty's Stationery Off. by Darling1909 url p. 113.
• Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation with indications of their native countries and some of their uses / by Baron Ferd. von Mueller. Melbourne: R. S. Brain, govt. printer, 1895. url p. 112, p. 102, p. 568.
• Studies of shade trees in California. 1913. url p. 24.
• The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas IUCN url p. 291.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url .
• The Marine Mammal Commission compendium of selected treaties, international agreements, and other relevant documents on marine resources, wildlife, and the environment / compiled by Richard L. Wallace. Washington, D.C.: The Commission; 1994 url p. 518.
• Tree species evaluation using the new CITES Listing Criteria CITES url p. 38, p. 5.
• Woods of northeastern Peru, by Llewelyn Williams. 15 1936 Chicago, 1936. url p. 238, p. 239, p. 26, p. 46, p. 542.
• [Sa?o Paulo trees]. Antwerp: Laporte & Dosse, 191?-1916 url .

Notes

Contributors

• Americas Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Costa Rica) 1998. Cedrela fissilis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3472115
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 577744-1
• IUCN ID: 198380
• MoBot NameID: 20400355
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3894044

Footnotes

1. "Cedrela". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Americas Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Costa Rica) 1998. Cedrela fissilis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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