Aucoumea klaineana
Overview
A detailed profile for this species is sourced from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as assessments become available.
Aucoumea klaineana faces severe pressure from commercial logging operations that target its valuable timber for export markets, particularly to Europe and Asia. Slash-and-burn agriculture and expanding human settlements continue to fragment its remaining forest habitat across Central Africa. Climate change poses an additional threat by altering rainfall patterns and temperature regimes that this species requires for successful reproduction and seedling establishment.
Habitat
Aucoumea klaineana inhabits primary and secondary tropical rainforests of Central Africa, particularly in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. This emergent canopy species thrives in well-drained soils of lowland and hill forests up to 1,000 meters elevation, often forming mixed stands with other valuable timber species.
