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Laurus azorica

(Macaronesian Laurel)

Common Names

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Common Names in Dutch:

Canarische Laurier

Common Names in English:

Azorean Sweet Bay, Azores Laurel, Canary Island Laurel, Fetid Laurel, Macaronesian Laurel

Common Names in French:

Laurier Des Açores

Common Names in German:

Kanarischer Lorbeerbaum

Common Names in Portuguese:

Loureiro, Louro, Louro-Da-Terra, Louro-De-Cheiro

Common Names in Russian:

Lavr Azorskii

Description

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

Subfamily Faboideae

Mostly herbs, shrubs , or trees . Leaves pinnate or palmate to trifoliolate or apparently simple . Corolla usually, showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal outermost in bud. Stamens 10 or 9 + 1 (diadelphous ), not showy. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) lacking. [Carr]

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -4,431 meters (0 to -14,537 feet).Mean = -2,559.680 meters (-8,397.900 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,598.110 based on 22 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Ecology: One of the major components of laurisilva, occurring over a wide altitudinal range . (Ref. 94060)

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Laurus azorica (Seub.) Franco
  2. Persea azorica

Notes

Publishing author : Franco Publication : in An. Inst. Super . Agron., Lisboa, xxiii. (Laurac. Macar.) 96, 101 (1960) Basionym author: (Seub.)A tentatively accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Laurus

There are approximately 346 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

L. 'Saratoga' · L. abbreviata · L. acuminata · L. acutifolia · L. aestivalis · L. aggregata · L. alba · L. albida · L. albiflora · L. alpigena · L. americana · L. americanus · L. amygdalina · L. angusta · L. angustifolia · L. armeniaca · L. atra · L. attenuata · L. aurantiodora · L. australis · L. axillaris · L. azorica (Macaronesian Laurel) · L. azorica f. grandifolia · L. azorica var. longifolia · L. azoricus · L. balanocarpa · L. barbujana · L. barbusana · L. barbusano · L. bazania · L. bejolghota · L. belloto · L. benzoin · L. bezolghota · L. bibracteata · L. biflora · L. bilocularis · L. bofo · L. bogotensis · L. bombycina · L. borbonia · L. bowiei · L. bullata · L. burmanni · L. burmannii · L. caerulea · L. caesia · L. calicaris · L. californica · L. calophylla · L. calycaris · L. calycina · L. camelilla · L. camphorata · L. camphorifera · L. canaliculata · L. canariensis · L. canella · L. canellila · L. carolinensis · L. carolinensis var. obtusa · L. carolinensis var. pubescens · L. caroliniensis · L. caroliniensis var. glabra · L. caroliniensis var. pubescens · L. caryophyllata · L. caryophyllus · L. cassia · L. catesbaei · L. catesbyana · L. cathia · L. caudata · L. caustica (Laurels) · L. cerasus · L. cervantesii · L. champa · L. chinensis · L. chloroxylon · L. cinnamifera · L. cinnamomea · L. cinnamomoides · L. cinnamomum · L. citriformis · L. citriodora · L. coccineus · L. coerulea · L. cordata · L. coruscans · L. crassifolia · L. crucifolia · L. cubeba · L. cuipala · L. culilaban · L. culilawan · L. culilawang · L. culillaban · L. culitlaban · L. cuneata · L. cuneifolia · L. cupularis

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Last Revised: August 25, 2008