Dioclea sericea LC Taxonomic Authority: Kunth Global Assessment Regional Assessment Region: Global Endemic to region Upper Level Taxonomy Kingdom: PLANTAE Phylum: TRACHEOPHYTA Class: MAGNOLIOPSIDA Order: FABALES Family: LEGUMINOSAE Lower Level Taxonomy Rank: Infra- rank name: Plant Hybrid Subpopulation: Authority: General Information Distribution Dioclea sericea is endemic to Colombia. Range Size Elevation Biogeographic Realm Area of Occupancy: Upper limit: 1450 Afrotropical Extent of Occurrence: Lower limit: 200 Antarctic Map Status: Depth Australasian Upper limit: Neotropical Lower limit: Oceanian Depth Zones Palearctic Shallow photic Bathyl Hadal Indomalayan Photic Abyssal Nearctic Population This taxon is described as being adundant within its native range. Total Population Size Minimum Population Size: Maximum Population Size: Habitat and Ecology This taxon has been collected from riparian forest and secondary vegetation on roadsides. System Movement pattern Crop Wild Relative Terrestrial Freshwater Nomadic Congregatory/Dispersive Is the species a wild relative of a crop? Marine Migratory Altitudinally migrant Threats This taxon is not known to be subject to any major threats or to have experienced a significant decline to its population.There are general threats to the species habitat that include logging, conversion of land for agriculture, road construction and settlement development. These general threats are leading to habitat loss and degradation. Past Present Future 13 None Conservation Measures This taxon is known to occur within a number of protected areas and seeds have been collected and stored by the Millennium Seed Bank Project as a method of ex situ conservation. In Place Needed 3 Research actions 3.2 Population numbers and range 3.3 Biology and Ecology 3.4 Habitat status 3.5 Threats 3.6 Uses and harvest levels 3.7 Cultural relevance 3.8 Conservation measures 3.9 Trends/Monitoring 4 Habitat and site-based actions 4.4 Protected areas 5 Species-based actions 5.7 Ex situ conservation actions 5.7.2 Genome resource bank Countries of Occurrence PRESENCE ORIGIN Year Breeding Non- Passage Possibly ExtinctPresence Native Introduced Re- Vagrant Origin Round Season breeding migrant extinct uncertain Introduced uncertain only season only Colombia Colombia General Habitats Score Description Major Importance 1 Forest 1UnsetSuitable 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland1Unset Suitable 3 Shrubland 9Possible Not applicable 3.6 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist9 Possible Not applicable Species Utilisation Species is not utilised at all Trend in the level of wild offtake/harvest in relation to total wild population numbers over the last five years: Trend in the amount of offtake/harvest produced through domestication/cultivation over the last five years: CITES status: Not listed IUCN Red Listing Red List Assessment:(using 2001 IUCN system) Least Concern (LC) Red List Criteria: Date Last Seen (only for EX, EW or Possibly EX species): Is the species Possibly Extinct? Possibly Extinct Candidate? Rationale for the Red List Assessment The geographical range of this taxon is greater than 20,000km2 and thus does not qualify for a threatened category under criterion B. The taxon is not known to be specifically threatened or in decline at present despite general threats to the habitat and is known to be abundant within its native range. This taxon is thus rated as Least Concern. Reason(s) for Change in Red List Category from the Previous Assessment: Genuine Change Nongenuine Change No Change Genuine (recent) New information Taxonomy Same category Genuine (since first assessment) Knowledge of Criteria Criteria Revisio and criteria Incorrect data used Other Same category but previously change in criteria Current Population Trend: Stable Date of Assessment: 10/09/2010 Name(s) of the Assessor(s): Groom, A. Evaluator(s): Notes: % population decline in the past: Time period over which the past decline has been measured for applying Criterion A or C1 (in years or generations): % population decline in the future: Time period over which the future decline has been measured for applying Criterion A or C1 (in years or generations): Number of Locations: Severely Fragmented: Number of Mature Individuals: Bibliography Garcia-Barriga, H. and Forero, E., 1968, Las Leguminosas: Mimosaceae, Caesalpiniaceae, Papilionaceae, Cat. Il. Pl. Cundinamarca, 1–136, , International Legume Database and Information Service, 2005, Dioclea sericea02/03/2010, , , Maxwell, R.H., 1969, The genus Dioclea (Fabaceae) in the New World 1–430., , Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, .