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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: A timber species found in areas of moist forest .[2]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Flowering Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Magnoliidae
()
- Novák Ex Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lauranae
()
- (Perleb, 1826) Takhtajan, 1997
- Order:
Laurales
()
- Perleb, 1826
- Suborder:
Laurineae
()
-
- Family:
Lauraceae
()
- Durande, 1782, Nom. Cons.
- Laurel Family
- Subfamily:
Lauroideae
()
- Genus:
Ocotea
()
- Aublet, 1775
- Specific epithet:
kenyensis
- Ocotea kenyensis (Chiov.) Robyns & R. Wilczek
- Botanical name: - Ocotea kenyensis (Chiov.) Robyns
- Specific epithet:
kenyensis
- Ocotea kenyensis (Chiov.) Robyns & R. Wilczek
- Genus:
Ocotea
(
- Subfamily:
Lauroideae
(
- Family:
Lauraceae
(
- Suborder:
Laurineae
(
- Order:
Laurales
(
- Superorder:
Lauranae
(
- Subclass:
Magnoliidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Magnoliophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Ocotea
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 612 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
O. abbreviata · O. acarina · O. aciphylla (Moena) · O. aciphylla var. chimantaensis · O. aciphylla var. robusta · O. acuminata · O. acuminatissima · O. acunaiana · O. acutangula · O. acutifolia · O. adela · O. adenotrachelium · O. alata · O. albida · O. albo-punctulata · O. albopunctulata · O. alloiophylla · O. alnifolia · O. alpina · O. amara · O. amazonica · O. amazonum · O. amoena · O. amplifolia · O. amplissima · O. angustifolia · O. angustitepala · O. aniboides · O. architectorum · O. arcuata · O. arechavaletae · O. arenaensis · O. arenaria · O. areolata · O. argentea · O. argylei · O. argyrophylla · O. arnottiana · O. atacta · O. athroanthes · O. atirrensis · O. atlantica · O. atrata · O. attenuata · O. aurantiodora · O. auriculata · O. auriculiformis · O. austinii · O. babosa · O. bahiensis · O. bajapazensis · O. bakeri · O. balanocarpa · O. bangii · O. barbatula · O. barcellensis · O. basicordatifolia · O. basirecurva · O. baturitensis · O. bellaziana · O. benthamiana · O. bernoulliana · O. betazensis · O. beulahiae · O. beyrichii · O. bicolor · O. bijuga · O. blanchetii · O. bofa · O. bofo · O. boissieriana · O. borbonica · O. botrantha · O. botryophylla · O. bourgeauviana · O. brachybotra · O. brachybotrya · O. bracteolata · O. bracteosa · O. brasiliensis · O. brenesii · O. brevipes · O. brevipetiolata · O. brevithyrsus · O. bucherii · O. budowskiana · O. bullata · O. caesia · O. calophylla · O. campechiana · O. camphoromoea · O. canaliculata · O. candidovillosa · O. caniflora · O. caparrapi · O. carabobensis · O. caracasana · O. cardinalis · O. castanea · O. catesbyana
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Further Reading
- Beentje, H.J. 1994. Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas. National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
- Friis, I. 1992. Forests and forest trees of Northeast Tropical Africa. Their natural habitats and distribution patterns in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia. HMSO, Middlesex, UK.
- Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler) 1998. Assessment of Southern African Trees for WCMC.
- Hilton-Taylor, C. 1996. Red Data List of southern African plants. Strelitzia 4. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria, South Africa.
- Katende, A.B. 1995. Annotations to: WCMC printout of Trees of Uganda dated 23 Nov. 1995.
- Kemp, E.S. 1979. Swaziland. Part of appendix to: Possibilities and needs for conservation of plant species and vegetation in Africa. In: I. Hedberg (ed.) Systematic Botany, Plant Utilization and Biosphere Conservation, pp.101-103. Almqvist and Wiksell International, Stockholm.
- Knox, Eric B. 1995. The List of East African Plants (LEAP): An electronic database (Draft).
- Timberlake, J.R. 1996. Annotations to the conservation listing of trees of Zimbabwe.
- Wood, C. E. Jr. 1958. The genera of the woody Ranales in the southeastern United States. J. Arnold Arbor. 39: 296-346.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 1, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 13, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 13, 2008:
- Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7140305
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15554385
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:467375-1
- IUCN ID: 30353
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1019263
Footnotes
- Henk van der Werff "Lauraceae". in Flora of North America Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
