Nectandra coriacea

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Overview

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]

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]

Physical Description

Habitat

In woods ; 0-100 m [3].

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,382 meters (0 to 7,815 feet).[4]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

L. catesbyana Michaux • Laurus coriacea Sw. • Laurus coriacea Swartz • Nectandra catesbyana (Michaux) Sargent • Ocotea catesbyana (Michaux) Sargent • Ocotea coriacea (Sw.) Britt. • Ocotea coriacea (Sw.) Britton • Oreodaphne coriacea (Sw.) Nees

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Nectandra

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

N. coriacea (Lancewood) · N. cufodontisii (Quizarr) · N. dasystyla (Laurel Del Baj) · N. embirensis (Jigua) · N. hihua (Shinglewood) · N. japurensis (Moena Blanca) · N. krugii (Bois Doux Avocat) · N. membranacea (Sweetwood) · N. mirafloris (Aguacate De Monte) · N. olida (Guipro) · N. patens (Capberry) · N. reflexa (Moena Amarilla) · N. truxillensis (Laurel Mapurito) · N. turbacensis (Laurel Amarillo)

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Further Reading

• A contribution to the botany of the Isle of Pines, Cuba, based upon the specimens of plants from that island contained in the herbarium of the Carnegie Museum under date of October, 1916. By O.E. Jennings. n.p., 1917 url p. 118, p. 119.
• A montane rain-forest; a contribution to the physiological plant geography of Jamaica, Washington, D. C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1914. url .
• An annotated catalogue of types of the University of Illinois mycological collections (ILL) / Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997. url p. 106, p. 90, p. 97.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 119, p. 494.
• Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 5, October 1990: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN url p. 107.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. 1879 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 89.
• Bulletin of entomological research. Farnham Royal: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux. url p. 131, p. 132, p. 328.
• Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. 12 1922-1924 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., url p. 298, p. 389.
• Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Washington, D.C.?]: Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1913-1923. url p. 70.
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url p. 20.
• Common trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands / by Elbert L. Little, Jr., and Frank H. Wadsworth. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1964. url , p. 116, p. 117, p. 13, p. 542.
• Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden, 1899- url p. 40.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 23 1920-1926 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 297.
• Contributions to North American ichthyology. Based primarily on the collections of the United States National Museum. Washington: Govt. print. off., 1877-78. url p. 89.
• Dedication papers: scientific papers presented at the dedication of the laboratory building and plant houses, April 19-21, 1917. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1918. url p. 48.
• Flora Costaricensis / William Burger, editor. 23 1990 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1990. url p. 65.
• Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island, by William Fawcett and Alfred Barton Rendle. London.Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1910- url p. 215, p. 215.
• Flora of Yucatan, by Paul C. Standley. 3 1930 Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. url p. 269.
• Flora of the islands of Margarita and Coche, Venezuela / by John Robert Johnston. Boston: Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, 1909. url p. 274.
• Forest of Port Rico; Washington, Govt. print. off., 1916. url p. 70.
• Grisebach, A. H. R. Flora of the British West Indian islands /by A.H.R. Grisebach. [1859]-18 London, L. Reeve, 1864. url p. 281.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 23 2003 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 293.
• MAB Information System: Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 4, October 1986: Supplement January 1988 UNESCO, IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url .
• Manual of the southeastern flora: being descriptions of the seed plants growing naturally in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, eastern Louisiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. 1933 New York: The author, 1933. url p. 922.
• Memoirs / Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Brooklyn, N.Y.: The Garden, 1918-1936. url p. 48.
• North American trees: being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies / New York: H. Holt and Co., 1908. url , .
• North American trees; being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies; with the assistance of John Adolph Shafer. New YorkHolt1908 url p. 401, p. 890.
• Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 158.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 141 1961 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 153, p. 459, p. 89.
• The Bahama flora, New York, The Authors, 1920. url .
• The Bahama flora, by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Charles Frederick Millspaugh. New York, Published by the authors, 1920. url p. 143, p. 143, p. 143, p. 143.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 84.
• The Review of applied entomology. Farnham Royal, Eng., etc.: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, etc. url p. 431.
• The flora of St. Croix and the Virgin Islands, by Baron H.F.A. Eggers. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1879. url p. 89.
• The flora of the American Virgin Islands / N.L. Britton. New York: New York Botanical Garden, 1918. url p. 48.
• The flora of the Dutch West Indian islands St. Eustatius, Saba and St. Martin. Leyden, Brill, 1909. url p. 219, p. 224, p. 268, p. 275, p. 282, p. 283, p. 285, p. 302, p. 315, p. 70.
• The silva of North America: a description of the trees which grow naturally in North America exclusive of Mexico /by Charles Sprague Sargent. .. illustrated with figures and analyses drawn from nature by Charles Edward Faxon. .. 7 1895 Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1891-1902. url p. 11, p. 133, p. 171.
• The vegetation of Mona Island, a paper read by invitation at the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the Missouri Botanical Garden, October 15, 1914. St Louis, 1915. url p. 40.
• Trees and shrubs of Mexico / By Paul C. Standley. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1920-1926. url p. 297.
• Tulane studies in zoology and botany. 30 1995 New Orleans: Tulane University, [1968- url p. 28, p. 62.
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• 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

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 12, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 19, 2007:

• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2645127
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-18183
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13729124
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:466678-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 25090
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 18183
• MoBot NameID: 17801048
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PD01517030
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: OCCO2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 45400

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. "Nectandra coriacea". in Flora of North America Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
4. Mean = 215.800 meters (708.005 feet), Standard Deviation = 542.880 based on 50 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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