Aniba rosaeodora

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• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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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]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Ducke Publication : Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Colon. 1928, viii. 845 (1930); et in Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio deJaneiro, v. 109 (1930).

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aniba

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

A. bracteata (Canelillo) · A. rosaeodora (Car-Cara) · A. rosaeodora var. amazonica (Brazilian Rosewood)

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Further Reading

• 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 324.
• Conservation and sustainable management of trees, report of the second regional workshop, held at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica, 18-20 November 1996 WCMC url p. 55.
• Contribution to an evaluation of tree species using the new CITES Listing Criteria CITES url p. 154, p. 435, p. 6.
• Novon a journal of botanical nomenclature from the Missouri Botanical Garden. 10 2000 St. Louis, MO: Missouri Botanical Garden, url p. 275.
• Plants in Danger: what do we know? IUCN url p. 340.
• The World List of Threatened Trees WCMC, IUCN url p. 56.
• 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-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Varty, N. 1998. Aniba rosaeodora. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 16, 2007:

• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3479281
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15549491
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:462598-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 462598-1
• IUCN ID: 191148
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1021961

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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