Nectandra patens

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,382 meters (0 to 7,815 feet).[3]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Laurus Patens • Laurus patens Sw. • Ocotea patens (Sw.) Alain • Ocotea patens (Sw.) Nees • Phoebe Patens

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. 119.
• A montane rain-forest; a contribution to the physiological plant geography of Jamaica, Washington, D. C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1914. url , , .
• A provisional list of the indigenous and naturalized flowering plants of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Aston W. Gardner & Co., 1893. url .
• An annotated catalogue of types of the University of Illinois mycological collections (ILL) / Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997. url p. 129, p. 180, p. 22, p. 287.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 119.
• Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Washington, D.C.?]: Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1913-1923. url p. 62, p. 70.
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url p. 20, p. 31, p. 53.
• 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. 542.
• 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, p. 216.
• Forest of Port Rico; Washington, Govt. print. off., 1916. url p. 62, p. 70.
• Illinois biological monographs. Urbana, Univ. of Illinois Press. url p. 487, p. 536.
• Novon a journal of botanical nomenclature from the Missouri Botanical Garden. 6 1996 St. Louis, MO: Missouri Botanical Garden, url p. 460.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 162.
• Plantae Insulae Ananasensis: a catalogue of plants collected on the Isle of Pines, Cuba, by Don José Blain / by Charles Frederick Millspaugh. 1 1900 Chicago, 1900. url p. 427, p. 438.
• The Journal of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture. San Juan: [Board of Commissioners of Agriculture, 1917]. url p. 141.
• The genus Meliola in Porto Rico, including descriptions of sixty-two new species and varieties and a synopsis of all known Porto Rican forms. With five plates. By Frank Lincoln Stevens. Urbana, University of Illinois, 1916 url p. 19, p. 68.
• The lower Eocene floras of southeastern North America, by Edward W. Berry. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1916. url p. 310.
• Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science. Springfield, Ill., Illinois State Academy of Science [etc.] url p. 257.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 21 1986 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 152.
• 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 26, 2007:

• Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium Darwin Core format
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2645131
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-18187
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13729128
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:466801-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 18187
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: NEPA4
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 49920

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 = -20.150 meters (-66.109 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,952.150 based on 13 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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