Nectandra smithii

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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]

Genus Nectandra

Trees or shrubs , evergreen . Bark dark reddish brown [brown, or gray], smooth with small wartlike lenticels . Leaves alternate. Leaf blade pinnately veined, papery or leathery; surfaces variously pubescent ; domatia absent. Inflorescences appearing when mature leaves are present, axillary , panicles, usually many-flowered. Flowers bisexual , 5-17 mm diam.; tepals deciduous, white or greenish, equal, spreading at anthesis , with papillose hairs on adaxial surface; stamens 9, anthers 4-locular, anthers of outer 6 stamens introrse , locules arranged in arc, anthers of inner 3 stamens extrorse ; staminodes 3, very small, sometimes absent. Drupe dark blue or black, ± elongate , seated in shallow [or cup-shaped], single-rimmed cupule.

Species ca. 120: nearly all neotropical .[2]

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -1 meters (0 to -3 feet).[3]

Ecology: It occurs in submontane forest .[4]

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Nectandra

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 282 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

N. acuminata · N. acutangula · N. acutifolia · N. albiflora · N. amara · N. amara var. australis · N. amazonum · N. amazonum var. reticulata · N. ambigens · N. ambigua · N. amplifolia · N. angusta · N. angustifolia · N. angustifolia var. falcifolia · N. anomala · N. anonyma · N. antillana · N. apiculata · N. araujovii · N. arnottiana · N. astyla · N. aurea · N. austinii · N. baccans · N. bahiana · N. barbellata · N. barcellensis · N. bartlettiana · N. belizensis · N. berchemiaefolia · N. berchemiifolia · N. bicolor · N. bijuga · N. boniato · N. breaparinensis · N. bredemeyeriana · N. brenesii · N. briquetii · N. brittonii · N. brochidodroma · N. canaliculata · N. canescens · N. capanahuensis · N. caparrapi · N. capituliforma · N. catesbyana · N. caucana · N. caudato-acuminata · N. caudatoacuminata · N. cerifolia · N. chiapensis · N. cigua · N. cinnamomoides · N. cissiflora · N. citrifolia · N. coeloclada · N. colorata · N. comasensis · N. concinna · N. cordata · N. coriacea (Florida Netandra) · N. corzoana · N. coto · N. crassiloba · N. cufodontisii (QuizarrÁ Amarillo) · N. cuneata · N. cuneato-cordata · N. cuneatocordata · N. cuspidata · N. cuspidata var. macrocarpa · N. cymbarum · N. dasystyla (Laurel Del BajÍo) · N. davidsoniana · N. debilis · N. decandra · N. discolor · N. dominicana · N. earlei · N. effusa · N. egensis · N. elaiophora · N. embirensis (Jigua) · N. exaltata · N. falcifolia · N. filiflora · N. floribunda · N. fragrans · N. fulva · N. furcata · N. fuscobarbata · N. gardneri · N. gentlei · N. glabrescens · N. glandulosa · N. glauca · N. glaziovii · N. globosa · N. gracilis · N. grandiflora · N. grandis

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Further Reading

• Rohwer, J.G. 1993. Nectandra (Lauraceae). Flora Neotropica. New York Botanic Gardens, New York.
• The Nature Conservancy. 1996. Natural Heritage Central Database. (Status and distribution data on Latin American plants, developed in collaboration with Latin American Conservation Data Centers and Missouri Botanical Garden).
• Wood, C. E. Jr. 1958. The genera of the woody Ranales in the southeastern United States. J. Arnold Arbor. 39: 296-346.
• Rohwer, J. G. 1993. Lauraceae: Nectandra. In: Organization for Flora Neotropica. 1968+. Flora Neotropica. 65+ vols. New York. Monogr. 60.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 13, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Nectandra smithii. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 13, 2008:

• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica): Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7145946
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15553820
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:466864-1
• IUCN ID: 35711
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1023307

Footnotes

1. Henk van der Werff "Lauraceae". in Flora of North America Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Henk var der Werff "Nectandra". in Flora of North America Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Mean = 60.620 meters (198.885 feet), Standard Deviation = 287.990 based on 24 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
4. World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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