Ocotea foetens

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Near Threatened

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]

Habitat

Ecology: One of the major components of laurisilva.[2].

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Laurus Foetens • Laurus foetens Aiton • Oreodaphne foetens (Aiton) Nees • Persea foetens (Aiton) Spreng.

Notes

A tentatively accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

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

• 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 328.
• Annual report Missouri Botanical Garden. 8 1897 St. Louis: Board of Trustees, 1890-1912. url p. 148, p. 194.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1919 1919 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 155.
• Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. London: The Natural History Museum, c1993-2002. url p. 2, p. 33, p. 5.
• Checklists for the CORINE Biotopes Programme and its application in the PHARE countries of Central and East Europe: including comparisons with relevant conventions and agreements on the conservation of European species and habitats EC url p. 115.
• Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. 14 1980 Ann Arbor: University Herbarium, University of Michigan, 1939- url p. 75.
• Journal of botany, British and foreign. 42 1904 London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1942. url p. 3.
• List of rare, threatened and endemic plants in Europe (1982 edition) Council of Europe url p. 128, p. 257, p. 294.
• Micro-Lepidoptera [six articles by Lord Walsingham] London, 1881-1907. url p. 976.
• Novon a journal of botanical nomenclature from the Missouri Botanical Garden. 6 1996 St. Louis, MO: Missouri Botanical Garden, url p. 460.
• Oecology of plants: an introduction to the study of plant-communities / by Eug. Warming; assisted by Martin Vahl; prepared for publication in English by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfour. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. url p. 309.
• Oecology of plants; an introduction to the study of plant-communities, by Eug. Warming, assisted by Martin Vahl. Prepared for publication in English by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfour. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. url p. 309.
• Official guide to the museums of economic botany. LondonPrinted for H.M. Stationery Off., by Darling1907 url p. 176.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 227.
• The Entomologist's record and journal of variation. s.l., s.n. url p. 103.
• The botanic gardens list of rare and threatened species IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 16.
• 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. 171.
• The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 35.
• 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.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Ocotea foetens. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 12, 2007:

• GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
• , Vascular Plant Herbarium
• Karl Franzens University of Graz, Insitute for Botany - Herbarium GZU, Herbarium GZU

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5846157
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13525830
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:467308-1
• IUCN ID: 227583
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 756971

Footnotes

1. Henk van der Werff "Lauraceae". in Flora of North America Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Ocotea foetens. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]

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