Chlorocardium rodiei

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Common Names

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]

Habitat

Ecology: The species is a dominant component of a restricted belt of lowland rainforest on brown sand and is also found occasionally in other forest types.[2]


List of Habitats :1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland

Taxonomy

Notes

Basionym : Lauraceae Nectandra rodiei Schomb. ex Meisn.Basionym author : (Schomb.)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Chlorocardium

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. rodiaei · C. rodiei (Cogwood) · C. venenosum

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Further Reading

• Chanderbali, A. 1997. Completed data collection form for Chlorocardium rodiei.
• Chudnoff, M. 1984. Tropical Timbers of the World. Forest Products Laboratory Madison, United States Department of Agriculture, Wisconsin.
• Cremers, G. 1994. Annotations to: Threatened plants of French Guiana (South America).
• Hammond, D.S. in litt. 1999. Letter sent to the World Conservation Monitoring Centre appealing the Vulnerable listing of Greenheart (Chlorocardium rodiei) in The World List of Threatened Trees.
• Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers) 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.
• Polak, A.M. and Rypkema, H.R. (ill.) 1992. Major Timber Trees of Guyana. The Tropenbos Foundation, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
• WCMC. (comp.) 1996. Report of the Second Regional Workshop, held at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica, 18-20 November 1996. Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project (unpublished).
• Werkhoven, M.C.M. 1997. Threatened trees of Suriname. A list compiled for the WCMC/SSC Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees Project (unpublished).
• Wood, C. E. Jr. 1958. The genera of the woody Ranales in the southeastern United States. J. Arnold Arbor. 39: 296-346.

Notes

Contributors

• Americas Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Costa Rica) 1998. Chlorocardium rodiei. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 09, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• Red List Standards & Petitions Working Group 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 09, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5878934
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:962596-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 274528-2
• IUCN ID: 34688
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1022417

Footnotes

1. Henk van der Werff "Lauraceae". in Flora of North America Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Red List Standards & Petitions Working Group 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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