Ocotea leucoxylon

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• Description
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Overview

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]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,051 meters (0 to 10,010 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Ocotea

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

O. aciphylla (Moena) · O. floribunda (Laurel Espada) · O. foeniculacea (Black Sweetwood) · O. foetens (Tilo) · O. holdridgeana (Tall-Fin Shrimp-Goby) · O. lancilimba (Bois Cannelle) · O. leucoxylon (Loblolly Sweetwood) · O. moschata (Nemoca) · O. nemodaphne (Laurel Sassafras) · O. portoricensis (Laurel De Paloma) · O. puberula (Cedre Gris) · O. spathulata (Nemoca Cimarrona) · O. usambarensis (East African Camphorwood) · O. wrightii (Wright's Laurel Canelon)

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Further Reading

• An annotated catalogue of types of the University of Illinois mycological collections (ILL) / Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997. url p. 103, p. 208, p. 287, p. 32, p. 49.
• Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Washington, D.C.?]: Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1913-1923. url p. 63, p. 70.
• 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. 122, p. 14, p. 542.
• Flora Costaricensis / William Burger, editor. 23 1990 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1990. url p. 11, p. 12, p. 121, p. 87.
• Forest of Port Rico; Washington, Govt. print. off., 1916. url p. 63, p. 70.
• Illinois biological monographs. Urbana, Univ. of Illinois Press. url p. 498, p. 513.
• Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. 24 1923 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., 1900- url p. 55.
• Memoirs / Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Brooklyn, N.Y.: The Garden, 1918-1936. url p. 48.
• Novon a journal of botanical nomenclature from the Missouri Botanical Garden. 11 2001 St. Louis, MO: Missouri Botanical Garden, url p. 504.
• Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 158.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 305.
• The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas IUCN url p. 96.
• The Journal of the Board of Commissioners of Agriculture. San Juan: [Board of Commissioners of Agriculture, 1917]. url p. 144, p. 222.
• The flora of the American Virgin Islands / N.L. Britton. New York: New York Botanical Garden, 1918. url p. 48.
• 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. 30, p. 45, p. 68.
• Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science. Springfield, Ill., Illinois State Academy of Science [etc.] url p. 217, p. 257.
• 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 12, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 01, 2008:

• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU, Herbarium WU

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2645133
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-18190
• GRIN Nomen Number: 450991
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 18190
• MoBot NameID: 17804683
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: OCLE
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 52144

Footnotes

1. Henk van der Werff "Lauraceae". in Flora of North America Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 446.430 meters (1,464.665 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,003.700 based on 715 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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