Fabaceae FAMILY Data Deficient

Coulteria mollis

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Coulteria mollis is a shrub or a tree that can grow up to 27 metres tall[ 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. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and source of timber. It is probably illegally harvested from the wild and traded338]. Coulteria mollis has a wide geographic range, but is found in dry tropical forest, a habitat that has suffered from habitat loss throughout the range of this species. There is no reliable information on how the population has been impacted by this loss, so at present the plant is classified as 'Data Deficient' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2013)[ 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. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeNorthern S. America - Colombia, Venezuela; C. America - Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, north to southern and southeastern Mexico

HabitatSeasonally dry tropical forest, usually along the coast and on limestone soils[ 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. ]. Found on sandy soils.