Magnistipula conrauana

Botanical Description

Magnistipula conrauana can be a shrub growing up to 5 metres tall, or a tree that can grow up to 12 metres[ 735 Title Chrysobalanaceae Part 2. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 19: 1-268 Publication Author Prance G.T.; Sothers C.A. Website http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb Publisher Australian Biological Resources Study; Canberra. Year 2003 ISBN 0 642 56833 2 Description An excellent monograph, part of a very ambitious project to catalogue all the plants in the world. It can be downloaded as a PDF file from the Internet. ]. The plant is sometimes grown as a hedge for enclosures. The northern parts of this plants range are densely populated and intensively cultivated. What few fragments of forest remain are under great pressure to supply wood and further agricultural land. Twenty-five percent of the forest area was lost in just eight years. The plant is classified as 'Endangered' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2011)[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].