Oreodaphne

Oreodaphne is a genus of flowering plants of the family Lauraceae. The genus includes five species[1] of evergreen trees, distributed mostly in tropical and subtropical regions of South America, tropical Africa, and Mauritius. It is often considered to be included in Ocotea.[2]

Oreodaphne
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Magnoliids
Order:
Laurales
Family:
Lauraceae
Genus:
Oreodaphne

Species

See text

Synonyms

Bellota Gay
Mespilodaphne Nees
Oreodaphne Nees & Mart.

Oreodaphne trees sometimes are called Mountain laurels. The fruit are succulent, partly immersed in a deep thick cup formed of the tube of the calyx.

Species[1]
  • Oreodaphne divaricata (Poir.) Nees
  • Oreodaphne retroflexa (Poir.) Nees
  • Oreodaphne sericea (Kunth) Nees
  • Oreodaphne subalpina (Nees) Meisn.
  • Oreodaphne tinctoria (Arruda) Rosenthal

References
  1. "The Plant List".
  2. "Tropicos.org".


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