Beilschmiedia membranacea

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Overview

Vulnerable

Description

Family Lauraceae

Shrubs to tall trees , evergreen or rarely deciduous ( Cassytha a parasitic vine with leaves reduced to scales ), usually aromatic . Leaves alternate, rarely whorled or opposite, simple , without stipules, petiolate . Leaf blade : unlobed (unlobed or lobed in Sassafras ), margins entire, occasionally with domatia (crevices or hollows serving as lodging for mites ) in axils of main lateral veins (in Cinnamomum ) . Inflorescences in axils of leaves or deciduous bracts, panicles (rarely heads ), racemes , compound cymes, or pseudoumbels (spikes in Cassytha ), sometimes enclosed by decussate bracts. Flowers bisexual or unisexual , bisexual only, or staminate and pistillate on different plants , or staminate and bisexual on some plants, pistillate and bisexual on others; flowers usually yellow to greenish or white, rarely reddish; hypanthium well developed, resembling calyx tube , tepals and stamens perigynous; tepals 6(-9), in 2(-3) whorls of 3, sepaloid , equal or rarely unequal, if unequal then usually outer 3 smaller than inner 3 (occasionally absent in Litsea ) ; stamens (3-) 9(-12), in whorls of 3, but 1 or more whorls frequently staminodial or absent; stamens of 3d whorl with 2 glands near base ; anthers 2- or 4-locular, locules opening by valves ; pistil 1, 1-carpellate; ovary 1-locular; placentation basal; ovule 1; stigma subsessile , discoid or capitate. Fruits drupes, drupe borne on pedicel with or without persistent tepals at base, or seated in ± deeply cup-shaped receptacle (cupule), or enclosed in accrescent floral tube . Seed 1; endosperm absent.

Genera ca. 50, species 2000-3000 (9 genera, 13 species in the flora ) : pantropical , a few species also in subtropical and temperate regions

Cassytha is sometimes placed in its own family , Cassythaceae; it is here retained in Lauraceae.[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Gamble Publication : Bull . Misc. Inform. Kew 1910, 150.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Beilschmiedia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 278 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

B. aborensis · B. acuta · B. acutifolia · B. alata · B. alloiophylla · B. ambigua · B. anacardioides · B. anay · B. angustielliptica · B. angustifolia · B. appendiculata · B. archboldiana · B. argentea · B. aruensis · B. assamica · B. atrata · B. auriculata · B. austin-smithii · B. balansae · B. bancroftii · B. bangkae · B. baotingensis · B. barensis · B. berteroana · B. bitehi · B. borneensis · B. bourdilloni · B. brachybotrys · B. brachythyrsa · B. bracteata · B. brasiliensis · B. brassii · B. brenesii · B. brevipaniculata · B. brevipes · B. brunnea · B. bullata · B. cairocan · B. calcitranthera · B. caloneura · B. castrisinensis · B. caudata · B. chevalieri · B. chinensis · B. cinnamomea · B. clarkei · B. collina · B. conferta · B. congestiflora · B. congolana · B. corbisieri · B. costaricensis · B. crassifolia · B. crassipes · B. cryptocaryoides · B. cuneata · B. curtisii · B. curviramea · B. cuspidata · B. cylindrica · B. dalzellii · B. dawei · B. delicata · B. deomalica · B. dictyoneura · B. dielsiana · B. dilmyana · B. dinklagei · B. discolor · B. diversiflora · B. djalonensis · B. donisii · B. durifolia · B. elata · B. elliptica · B. elmeri · B. emarginata · B. erithrophloia · B. erythrophleum · B. erythrophloia · B. euryneura · B. eusideroxylocarpa · B. fagieolia · B. fagifolia · B. fasciata · B. fibrosa · B. fluminensis · B. foliosa · B. fordii · B. foveolata · B. fruticosa · B. fulva · B. furfuracea · B. gaboonensis · B. gammieana · B. gemmiflora · B. gigantocarpa · B. gilbertii · B. giorgii · B. gitingensis

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Further Reading

• Chua, L. et al. 1997. Completed data collection forms for endemic trees of Peninsular Malaysia.
• Ng, F.S.P., Low, C.M. and Sanah, M.A.N. 1990. Endemic trees of the Malay Peninsula. Forestry Department, Kuala Lumpur.
• Wood, C. E. Jr. 1958. The genera of the woody Ranales in the southeastern United States. J. Arnold Arbor. 39: 296-346.

Notes

Contributors

• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Beilschmiedia membranacea. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7146564
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:462861-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 462861-1
• IUCN ID: 36339
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1023780

Footnotes

1. Henk van der Werff "Lauraceae". in Flora of North America Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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