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Lysiloma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae. [ 1 ] The genus is native to the Americas, and species range from Arizona and New Mexico through Mexico and Central America to Costa Rica , and in Florida , Cuba , Hispaniola , the Bahamas , and Turks and Caicos Islands .
The non-marine molluscs of Sri Lanka are a part of the molluscan wildlife of Sri Lanka. Naggs et al. (2003) listed 246 land gastropods for Sri Lanka. [1] Ranawana (2006) listed 18 species of non-indigenous land gastropods in Sri Lanka and he added some species to that list. [2] The fauna of Sri Lanka also includes freshwater snails and ...
National parks are a class of protected areas in Sri Lanka and are administered by the Department of Wildlife Conservation. National parks are governed by the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance (No. 2) of 1937 and may be created, amended or abolished by ministerial order. [1]
Lysiloma divaricatum ranges from northern Mexico to Costa Rica. [2] It is found in tropical and subtropical dry deciduous forest, mixed pine forest, and occasionally in desert scrub with cactus. It ranges from sea level up to 1100 meters elevation, and occasionally up to 1750 meters. It is often found on slopes growing on volcanic and sandy ...
The lowland rain forests accounts for 2.14 percent of Sri Lanka's land area. [3] This ecoregion is the home of the jungle shrew, a small endemic mammal of Sri Lanka. [4] Sri Lanka has the highest density of amphibian species worldwide. [2] Many of these, including 250 species of tree frogs, live in these rain forests.
The Sri Lanka montane rain forests represent the montane and submontane moist forests above 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) in the central highlands and in the Knuckles mountain range. [5] Half of Sri Lanka's endemic flowering plants and 51 percent of the endemic vertebrates are restricted to this ecoregion. This ecoregion is inhabited by five strict ...
The following list provides the 704 species of common trees and shrubs of flora of Sri Lanka under 95 families. The list is according to A Field Guide to the Common Trees and Shrubs of Sri Lanka, by Mark Ashton, Savitri Gunatilleke, Neela de Zoysa, M.D. Dassanayake, Nimal Gunatilleke and Siril Wijesundera. [1]
According to the U.N. FAO, 28.8% of Sri Lanka was forested in 2010 (about 1,86 million hectares). In 1995, it was 1.94 million hectares or 32.2% [11] of the land area that was classified as dense forests while the balance 0.47 million hectares or 7% the land area classified as open forests.