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|name = ''Actinodaphne'' |
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|image_caption = ''[[Actinodaphne malaccensis]]'' |
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|taxon = Actinodaphne |
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|authority = [[Nees]] |
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|unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperm]]s |
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|unranked_classis = [[Magnoliid]]s |
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|ordo = [[Laurales]] |
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|familia = [[Lauraceae]] |
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|genus = '''''Actinodaphne''''' |
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|genus_authority = [[Nees]] |
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|subdivision_ranks = Species |
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|subdivision = See text |
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''Actinomorphe'' {{small|Kuntze}} |
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|synonyms_ref= <ref name = powo/> |
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[[File:Actinodaphne lancifolia - Miyajima Natural Botanical Garden - DSC02348.JPG|thumb|Actinodaphne lancifolia]] |
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[[File:Actinodaphne lancifolia - Miyajima Natural Botanical Garden - DSC02348.JPG|thumb|upright|''[[Actinodaphne lancifolia]]'']] |
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'''''Actinodaphne''''' is an Asian [[genus]] of the family [[Lauraceae]], Laurel bay related, that comprises a group of flowering plants within the order [[Laurales]]. |
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'''''Actinodaphne''''' is an Asian [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the laurel family ([[Lauraceae]]). It contains approximately 125 species<ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21320-1 ''Actinodaphne'' Nees]. ''Plants of the World Online'', Kew Science. Accessed 11 April 2023.</ref> of [[dioecious]] evergreen trees and shrubs.<ref name =floraofchina/> |
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==Overview== |
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It is a botanical genus of [[dioecious]] evergreen trees and shrubs with 140 [[species]] of the [[Lauraceae]], in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, with 17 Chinese species, 13 endemic. |
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They are trees of 3 to 25 m tall, with leaves usually clustered or nearly verticillate, rarely alternate or opposite, unlobed, pinninerved, rarely triplinerved. |
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The flowers are having star shape, are small and greenish. The flowers are clustered or whorled and are Unisexual.<ref>[http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/PDF07/Actinodaphne.pdf Flora of China]</ref> |
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Umbels solitary or clustered or arranged in a panicle or raceme; involucral bracts imbricate, caducous. |
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The perianth tube is short; perianth segments usually 6 in 2 whorls of 3 each, nearly equal, rarely persistent. |
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The male flowers: fertile stamens usually 9 in 3 whorls of 3 each; filaments of 1st and 2nd whorls eglandular, of 3rd whorls 2-glandular at |
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base; anthers all introrse and 4-celled, cells opening by lids; rudimentary pistil small or lacking. |
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The female flowers with staminodes as many as stamens of male flowers; ovary superior; stigma shield-shaped or dilated. |
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Fruit is a berry seated on shallow or deep cup-shaped or discoid perianth tube. It have a small single seed dispersed mostly by birds |
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Species range across tropical and subtropical regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia, southern China, Japan, New Guinea, Queensland, Solomon Islands, and Fiji.<ref name = powo/> There are 17 Chinese species, 13 of which are endemic.<ref name =floraofchina/> |
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==Ecology== |
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They Grow in low evergreen tropical forest regions but also in tropical mountain cloud forest and [[laurel forest]]. Species in less humid environment are smaller or less robust, with less abundant and thinner foliage and have oleifera cells that give trees a more fragrant aroma. |
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The ecological requirements of the genus, are those of fog moisture precipitating almost continuously in a natural habitat cloud-covered for much of the year. These genus species are found in tropical forests, subtropical temperate evergreen, and montane evergreen forests, which is a type of [[rainforest]] or [[Cloud Forest]], an [[ecosystem]] of great exuberance characterized by high humidity, no seasonal changes and with a wide variety of botanical and zoological species but also highly fragile against external aggressions. The temperate evergreen and evergreen forests are typically multispecies with evergreen and hardwood trees, reaching up to 40 meters in height. The forests are made up of laurel-leaved [[evergreen]] [[hardwood]] [[tree]]s, harbouring a rich [[biota (ecology)|biota]] of [[understorey]] plants, [[invertebrate]]s, [[bird]]s and [[mammalia]]ns. |
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==Description== |
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It is present in cool temperate zones in montane tropical and subtropical montane rainforest, Actinodaphne require continuously moist soil, and do not tolerate drought and frost. |
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The trees are 3 to 25 m tall, with leaves usually clustered or nearly verticillate, rarely alternate or opposite, unlobed, pinninerved, and rarely triplinerved. |
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The laurel trees falls within the broad-leaved forests; mid-montane deciduous forests; and high-montane mixed stunted forests. Some species growing to high altitude forests at {{convert|1500|-|3300|m}}. The upper limit of forests ranges from {{convert|3000|-|3300|m|abbr=on}}. |
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The flowers are star-shaped, small, and greenish. The flowers are clustered or whorled and are unisexual.<ref name =floraofchina>[http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/PDF07/Actinodaphne.pdf Flora of China]</ref> |
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Umbels are solitary or clustered or arranged in a panicle or raceme; involucral bracts are imbricated and caducous. |
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The perianth tube is short; perianth segments usually number six in two whorls of three each, nearly equal, and rarely persistent. The male flowers have fertile stamens usually 9 in three whorls of three each; filaments of the first and second whorls are eglandular, and of the third whorl are biglandular at the base; anthers are all introrse and four-celled; cells opening by lids; the rudimentary pistil is small or lacking. |
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The female flowers has staminodes as many as stamens of male flowers; the ovary is superior; the stigma is shield-shaped or dilated. The fruit is a berry-like drupe seated on shallow or deep, cup-shaped or discoid, perianth tube. It has a small single seed dispersed mostly by birds. |
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==Ecology== |
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''Actinodaphne'' species require continuously moist soil, and do not tolerate drought and frost.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}} |
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The laurel trees fall within the broad-leaved forests; mid-montane deciduous forests; and high-montane mixed stunted forests. Some species grow in high-elevation forests at {{convert|1500|-|3300|m|abbr=on}}. |
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==Species== |
==Species== |
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125 species of ''Actinodaphne'' are accepted. They include:<ref name = powo/> |
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* [[Actinodaphne albifrons]] |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne acuminata]]'' {{small|(Blume) Meisn.}} – central and southern Japan, Ryukyu Islands, and Taiwan |
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* [[Actinodaphne bourneae]] |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne albifrons]]'' <small>[[Kosterm.]]</small> – Sri Lanka |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne amabilis]]'' {{small|Kosterm.}} – Thailand |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne ambigua]]'' {{small|Hook.f.}} – Sri Lanka |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne andamanica]]'' {{small|M.Gangop.}} – Andaman Islands |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne angustifolia]]'' {{small|(Blume) Nees}} – Nepal to Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi |
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* [[Actinodaphne glaucina]] |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne apoensis]]'' {{small|(Elmer) Kosterm. ex Brambach & Pelser}} – Philippines (Mindanao). |
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* [[Actinodaphne fragilis]] |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne archboldiana]]'' {{small|C.K.Allen}} – New Guinea |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne areolata]]'' {{small|Blume}} – Java |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne bicolor]]'' {{small|(Merr.) Merr.}} – Philippines |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne borneensis]]'' {{small|Meisn.}} – Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne bourdillonii]]'' <small>Gamble</small> – southern India |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne bourneae]]'' <small>Gamble</small> – southern India |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne brassii]]'' {{small|C.K.Allen}} – Solomon Islands |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne caesia]]'' {{small|Teschner}} – New Guinea |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne campanulata]]'' {{small|Hook.f.}} – southern India |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne candolleana]]'' {{small|(Thwaites) Meisn.}} – Sri Lanka |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne celebica]]'' {{small|Miq.}} – Sulawesi |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne cinerea]]'' {{small|Elmer}} – Philippines (Palawan) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne concinna]]'' {{small|Ridl.}} – Peninsular Malaysia |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne concolor]]'' {{small|Nees}} – Myanmar |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne corymbosa]]'' {{small|Blume}} – Sumatra |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne crassa]]'' {{small|Hand.-Mazz.}} – China (Hunan) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne cupularis]]'' <small>(Hemsl.) Gamble</small> – southern China to Thailand |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne diversifolia]]'' {{small|Merr.}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne dolichophylla]]'' {{small|(Merr.) Merr.}} – southern Philippines |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne elegans]]'' {{small|Thwaites}} – Sri Lanka |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne ellipticbacca]]'' <small>Kosterm.</small> – northern Vietnam |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne engleriana]]'' {{small|Teschner}} – New Guinea |
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[[File:Actinodaphne malaccensis - détail des feuilles.JPG|thumb|220px|right|Actinodaphne malaccensis in Rainforest]]}} |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne ferruginea]]'' {{small|H.Liu}} – southern Vietnam |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne forrestii]]'' <small>(C.K.Allen) Kosterm.</small> – southern China (Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou) and Vietnam |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne fragilis]]'' <small>Gamble</small> – Peninsular Malaysia |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne fuliginosa]]'' {{small|Airy Shaw}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne furfuracea]]'' {{small|Blume}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne glabra]]'' {{small|Blume}} – Borneo and Java |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne glauca]]'' {{small|Nees}} – Sri Lanka |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne glaucina]]'' <small>C.K.Allen</small> – Hainan |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne glomerata]]'' {{small|(Blume) Nees}} – Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, and Sulawesi |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne gracilis]]'' {{small|Miq.}} – Sumatra |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne henryi]]'' <small>Gamble</small> – China (southern Yunnan) to northern Indochina |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne hirsuta]]'' {{small|Blume}} – Java |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne hypoleucophylla]]'' {{small|Hayata}} – southern China and central Taiwan |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne intermedia]]'' {{small|(Elmer) Kosterm. ex Brambach & Pelser}} – Philippines |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne javanica]]'' {{small|Miq.}} – Java |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne johorensis]]'' <small>Gamble</small> – Peninsular Malaysia |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne junghuhnii]]'' {{small|Stur}} – Sumatra |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne kinabaluensis]]'' {{small|Kosterm.}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne koshepangii]]'' {{small|Chun ex Hung T.Chang}} – China (northwestern Guangdong and western Hunan) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne kostermansii]]'' {{small|S.Julia}} – Borneo (Sabah and Brunei) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne kweichowensis]]'' <small>Yen C.Yang & P.H.Huang</small> – China (southwest Guangxi and southwest Guizhou) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne lambirensis]]'' {{small|Tagane, Yahara & N.Okabe}} – Borneo (Sarawak) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne lanata]]'' <small>Meisn.</small> – southern India |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne lanceolata]]'' {{small|Dalzell & A.Gibson}} – western India |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne latifolia]]'' {{small|Teschner}} – New Guinea |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne lawsonii]]'' <small>Gamble</small> – southern India |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne lecomtei]]'' <small>C.K.Allen</small> – China (Sichuan, Guizhou, and northern Guangdong) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne ledermannii]]'' {{small|Teschner}} – New Guinea |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne leiophylla]]'' {{small|(Kurz) Hook.f.}} – southern Myanmar |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne longipes]]'' {{small|Kosterm.}} – Nepal to eastern India, Vietnam |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne macgregorii]]'' {{small|(Merr.) Kosterm.}} – Philippines and Solomon Islands |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne macrophylla]]'' {{small|(Blume) Nees}} – Peninsular Malaysia, Java, and Queensland |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne macroptera]]'' {{small|Miq.}} – Andaman Islands and Sumatra |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne madraspatana]]'' {{small|Bedd. ex Hook.f.}} – southern India |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne malaccensis]]'' <small>Hook.f.</small> – Peninsular Malaysia |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne mansonii]]'' {{small|M.Gangop.}} – Myanmar |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne menghaiensis]]'' <small>J.Li</small> – China (southern Yunnan) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne molochina]]'' <small>Nees</small> – Sri Lanka |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne moluccana]]'' {{small|Blume}} – Maluku |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne montana]]'' <small>Gamble</small> – Peninsular Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne moonii]]'' {{small|Thwaites}} – Sri Lanka |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne multiflora]]'' {{small|Benth.}} – Solomon Islands |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne mushanensis]]'' <small>(Hayata) Hayata</small> – Taiwan |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne myriantha]]'' {{small|Merr.}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne nicobarica]]'' {{small|M.Gangop.}} – Nicobar Islands |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne nitida]]'' <small>Teschner</small> – New Guinea and Solomon Islands |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne notabilis]]'' <small>Doweld</small> – Peninsular Malaysia |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne novoguineensis]]'' {{small|Teschner}} – New Guinea |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne obovata]]'' <small>(Nees) Blume</small> – central Himalayas to China (southern and southeastern Yunnan) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne obscurinervia]]'' <small>Yen C.Yang & P.H.Huang</small> – China (eastern Sichuan) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne obtusa]]'' {{small|Teschner}} – New Guinea |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne oleifolia]]'' {{small|Gamble}} – Peninsular Malaysia |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne omeiensis]]'' <small>(H.Liu) C.K.Allen</small> – China (Sichuan, Guizhou) and southwestern Thailand |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne paotingensis]]'' <small>Yen C.Yang & P.H.Huang</small> – Hainan |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne pauciflora]]'' {{small|Blume}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne pedunculata]]'' {{small|(Blume) Meisn.}} – southeastern China |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne percoriacea]]'' {{small|S.Julia}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne perglabra]]'' {{small|Kosterm.}} – eastern Thailand |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne perlucida]]'' {{small|C.K.Allen}} – southern Vietnam |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne pilosa]]'' <small>(Lour.) Merr.</small> – China (Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hainan), Laos, and Vietnam |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne pisifera]]'' {{small|Hook.f.}} – Sri Lanka |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne procera]]'' {{small|Nees}} – Java and Nicobar Islands |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne pruinosa]]'' <small>Nees</small> – Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne pubescens]]'' {{small|Blume}} – Java |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne pulchra]]'' {{small|Teschner}} – New Guinea |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne quercina]]'' {{small|Blume}} – Java |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne ramosii]]'' {{small|Brambach & Pelser}} – Philippines |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne rehderiana]]'' {{small|(C.K.Allen) Kosterm. ex Dao}} – northern Vietnam |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne reticulata]]'' {{small|Meisn.}} – Assam |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne ridleyi]]'' {{small|Gamble}} – Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia (Johor) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne robusta]]'' {{small|S.Julia}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne rufescens]]'' {{small|Blume}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne rumphii]]'' {{small|Blume}} – Maluku |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne salicina]]'' <small>Meisn.</small> – southern India |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne samarensis]]'' {{small|(Merr.) Merr.}} – southern Philippines |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne scleroptera]]'' {{small|Miq.}} – Sumatra |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne semengohensis]]'' {{small|S.Julia}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne sesquipedalis]]'' {{small|Hook.f. & Thomson ex Meisn.}} – Myanmar, Andaman Islands, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Andaman Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, and Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne shendurunii]]'' {{small|Robi & Udayan}} – India (Kerala) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne sikkimensis]]'' {{small|Meisn.}} – Nepal to eastern India, Myanmar, and Thailand |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne soepadmoi]]'' {{small|S.Julia}} – Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne solomonensis]]'' {{small|C.K.Allen}} – Solomon Islands |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne spathulifolia]]'' {{small|S.Julia}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne speciosa]]'' <small>Nees</small> – Sri Lanka |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne stenophylla]]'' <small>Thwaites</small> – Sri Lanka |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne sulcata]]'' {{small|S.Julia}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne superba]]'' {{small|Boerl.}} – Borneo and Sulawesi |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne tadulingamii]]'' {{small|Gamble}} – western and southern India |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne tayabensis]]'' {{small|(Elmer) Merr.}} – Philippines |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne tomentosa]]'' {{small|Teschner}} – New Guinea |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne tonkinensis]]'' {{small|Dao}} – Vietnam |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne trichocarpa]]'' <small>C.K.Allen</small> – China (Sichuan, northeastern Yunnan, and Guizhou) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne tsaii]]'' <small>Hu</small> – China (southern and southeastern Yunnan) |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne venosa]]'' {{small|S.Julia}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Actinodaphne wightiana]]'' {{small|(Kuntze) Noltie}} – Borneo |
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* ''[[Litsea ligustrina]]'' <small>(Nees) Fern.-Vill.</small> (as ''[[Actinodaphne quinqueflora]]'' <small>Nees</small>) – Bangladesh, southwestern India, Myanmar, northeastern Pakistan, Sri Lanka |
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==References== |
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*{{eFloras|110|100442|Actinodaphne}} |
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*http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=110&taxon_id=100442 |
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*http://pick4.pick.uga.edu/mp/20q?search=Actinodaphne |
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Latest revision as of 02:48, 12 April 2023
Actinodaphne | |
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Actinodaphne malaccensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Magnoliids |
Order: | Laurales |
Family: | Lauraceae |
Genus: | Actinodaphne Nees |
Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Actinomorphe Kuntze |
Actinodaphne is an Asian genus of flowering plants in the laurel family (Lauraceae). It contains approximately 125 species[1] of dioecious evergreen trees and shrubs.[2]
Species range across tropical and subtropical regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia, southern China, Japan, New Guinea, Queensland, Solomon Islands, and Fiji.[1] There are 17 Chinese species, 13 of which are endemic.[2]
Description[edit]
The trees are 3 to 25 m tall, with leaves usually clustered or nearly verticillate, rarely alternate or opposite, unlobed, pinninerved, and rarely triplinerved. The flowers are star-shaped, small, and greenish. The flowers are clustered or whorled and are unisexual.[2] Umbels are solitary or clustered or arranged in a panicle or raceme; involucral bracts are imbricated and caducous. The perianth tube is short; perianth segments usually number six in two whorls of three each, nearly equal, and rarely persistent. The male flowers have fertile stamens usually 9 in three whorls of three each; filaments of the first and second whorls are eglandular, and of the third whorl are biglandular at the base; anthers are all introrse and four-celled; cells opening by lids; the rudimentary pistil is small or lacking. The female flowers has staminodes as many as stamens of male flowers; the ovary is superior; the stigma is shield-shaped or dilated. The fruit is a berry-like drupe seated on shallow or deep, cup-shaped or discoid, perianth tube. It has a small single seed dispersed mostly by birds.
Ecology[edit]
Actinodaphne species require continuously moist soil, and do not tolerate drought and frost.[citation needed] The laurel trees fall within the broad-leaved forests; mid-montane deciduous forests; and high-montane mixed stunted forests. Some species grow in high-elevation forests at 1,500–3,300 m (4,900–10,800 ft).
Species[edit]
125 species of Actinodaphne are accepted. They include:[1]
- Actinodaphne acuminata (Blume) Meisn. – central and southern Japan, Ryukyu Islands, and Taiwan
- Actinodaphne albifrons Kosterm. – Sri Lanka
- Actinodaphne amabilis Kosterm. – Thailand
- Actinodaphne ambigua Hook.f. – Sri Lanka
- Actinodaphne andamanica M.Gangop. – Andaman Islands
- Actinodaphne angustifolia (Blume) Nees – Nepal to Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi
- Actinodaphne apoensis (Elmer) Kosterm. ex Brambach & Pelser – Philippines (Mindanao).
- Actinodaphne archboldiana C.K.Allen – New Guinea
- Actinodaphne areolata Blume – Java
- Actinodaphne bicolor (Merr.) Merr. – Philippines
- Actinodaphne borneensis Meisn. – Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo
- Actinodaphne bourdillonii Gamble – southern India
- Actinodaphne bourneae Gamble – southern India
- Actinodaphne brassii C.K.Allen – Solomon Islands
- Actinodaphne caesia Teschner – New Guinea
- Actinodaphne campanulata Hook.f. – southern India
- Actinodaphne candolleana (Thwaites) Meisn. – Sri Lanka
- Actinodaphne celebica Miq. – Sulawesi
- Actinodaphne cinerea Elmer – Philippines (Palawan)
- Actinodaphne concinna Ridl. – Peninsular Malaysia
- Actinodaphne concolor Nees – Myanmar
- Actinodaphne corymbosa Blume – Sumatra
- Actinodaphne crassa Hand.-Mazz. – China (Hunan)
- Actinodaphne cupularis (Hemsl.) Gamble – southern China to Thailand
- Actinodaphne diversifolia Merr. – Borneo
- Actinodaphne dolichophylla (Merr.) Merr. – southern Philippines
- Actinodaphne elegans Thwaites – Sri Lanka
- Actinodaphne ellipticbacca Kosterm. – northern Vietnam
- Actinodaphne engleriana Teschner – New Guinea
- Actinodaphne ferruginea H.Liu – southern Vietnam
- Actinodaphne forrestii (C.K.Allen) Kosterm. – southern China (Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou) and Vietnam
- Actinodaphne fragilis Gamble – Peninsular Malaysia
- Actinodaphne fuliginosa Airy Shaw – Borneo
- Actinodaphne furfuracea Blume – Borneo
- Actinodaphne glabra Blume – Borneo and Java
- Actinodaphne glauca Nees – Sri Lanka
- Actinodaphne glaucina C.K.Allen – Hainan
- Actinodaphne glomerata (Blume) Nees – Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, and Sulawesi
- Actinodaphne gracilis Miq. – Sumatra
- Actinodaphne henryi Gamble – China (southern Yunnan) to northern Indochina
- Actinodaphne hirsuta Blume – Java
- Actinodaphne hypoleucophylla Hayata – southern China and central Taiwan
- Actinodaphne intermedia (Elmer) Kosterm. ex Brambach & Pelser – Philippines
- Actinodaphne javanica Miq. – Java
- Actinodaphne johorensis Gamble – Peninsular Malaysia
- Actinodaphne junghuhnii Stur – Sumatra
- Actinodaphne kinabaluensis Kosterm. – Borneo
- Actinodaphne koshepangii Chun ex Hung T.Chang – China (northwestern Guangdong and western Hunan)
- Actinodaphne kostermansii S.Julia – Borneo (Sabah and Brunei)
- Actinodaphne kweichowensis Yen C.Yang & P.H.Huang – China (southwest Guangxi and southwest Guizhou)
- Actinodaphne lambirensis Tagane, Yahara & N.Okabe – Borneo (Sarawak)
- Actinodaphne lanata Meisn. – southern India
- Actinodaphne lanceolata Dalzell & A.Gibson – western India
- Actinodaphne latifolia Teschner – New Guinea
- Actinodaphne lawsonii Gamble – southern India
- Actinodaphne lecomtei C.K.Allen – China (Sichuan, Guizhou, and northern Guangdong)
- Actinodaphne ledermannii Teschner – New Guinea
- Actinodaphne leiophylla (Kurz) Hook.f. – southern Myanmar
- Actinodaphne longipes Kosterm. – Nepal to eastern India, Vietnam
- Actinodaphne macgregorii (Merr.) Kosterm. – Philippines and Solomon Islands
- Actinodaphne macrophylla (Blume) Nees – Peninsular Malaysia, Java, and Queensland
- Actinodaphne macroptera Miq. – Andaman Islands and Sumatra
- Actinodaphne madraspatana Bedd. ex Hook.f. – southern India
- Actinodaphne malaccensis Hook.f. – Peninsular Malaysia
- Actinodaphne mansonii M.Gangop. – Myanmar
- Actinodaphne menghaiensis J.Li – China (southern Yunnan)
- Actinodaphne molochina Nees – Sri Lanka
- Actinodaphne moluccana Blume – Maluku
- Actinodaphne montana Gamble – Peninsular Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia
- Actinodaphne moonii Thwaites – Sri Lanka
- Actinodaphne multiflora Benth. – Solomon Islands
- Actinodaphne mushanensis (Hayata) Hayata – Taiwan
- Actinodaphne myriantha Merr. – Borneo
- Actinodaphne nicobarica M.Gangop. – Nicobar Islands
- Actinodaphne nitida Teschner – New Guinea and Solomon Islands
- Actinodaphne notabilis Doweld – Peninsular Malaysia
- Actinodaphne novoguineensis Teschner – New Guinea
- Actinodaphne obovata (Nees) Blume – central Himalayas to China (southern and southeastern Yunnan)
- Actinodaphne obscurinervia Yen C.Yang & P.H.Huang – China (eastern Sichuan)
- Actinodaphne obtusa Teschner – New Guinea
- Actinodaphne oleifolia Gamble – Peninsular Malaysia
- Actinodaphne omeiensis (H.Liu) C.K.Allen – China (Sichuan, Guizhou) and southwestern Thailand
- Actinodaphne paotingensis Yen C.Yang & P.H.Huang – Hainan
- Actinodaphne pauciflora Blume – Borneo
- Actinodaphne pedunculata (Blume) Meisn. – southeastern China
- Actinodaphne percoriacea S.Julia – Borneo
- Actinodaphne perglabra Kosterm. – eastern Thailand
- Actinodaphne perlucida C.K.Allen – southern Vietnam
- Actinodaphne pilosa (Lour.) Merr. – China (Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hainan), Laos, and Vietnam
- Actinodaphne pisifera Hook.f. – Sri Lanka
- Actinodaphne procera Nees – Java and Nicobar Islands
- Actinodaphne pruinosa Nees – Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo
- Actinodaphne pubescens Blume – Java
- Actinodaphne pulchra Teschner – New Guinea
- Actinodaphne quercina Blume – Java
- Actinodaphne ramosii Brambach & Pelser – Philippines
- Actinodaphne rehderiana (C.K.Allen) Kosterm. ex Dao – northern Vietnam
- Actinodaphne reticulata Meisn. – Assam
- Actinodaphne ridleyi Gamble – Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia (Johor)
- Actinodaphne robusta S.Julia – Borneo
- Actinodaphne rufescens Blume – Borneo
- Actinodaphne rumphii Blume – Maluku
- Actinodaphne salicina Meisn. – southern India
- Actinodaphne samarensis (Merr.) Merr. – southern Philippines
- Actinodaphne scleroptera Miq. – Sumatra
- Actinodaphne semengohensis S.Julia – Borneo
- Actinodaphne sesquipedalis Hook.f. & Thomson ex Meisn. – Myanmar, Andaman Islands, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Andaman Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, and Borneo
- Actinodaphne shendurunii Robi & Udayan – India (Kerala)
- Actinodaphne sikkimensis Meisn. – Nepal to eastern India, Myanmar, and Thailand
- Actinodaphne soepadmoi S.Julia – Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo
- Actinodaphne solomonensis C.K.Allen – Solomon Islands
- Actinodaphne spathulifolia S.Julia – Borneo
- Actinodaphne speciosa Nees – Sri Lanka
- Actinodaphne stenophylla Thwaites – Sri Lanka
- Actinodaphne sulcata S.Julia – Borneo
- Actinodaphne superba Boerl. – Borneo and Sulawesi
- Actinodaphne tadulingamii Gamble – western and southern India
- Actinodaphne tayabensis (Elmer) Merr. – Philippines
- Actinodaphne tomentosa Teschner – New Guinea
- Actinodaphne tonkinensis Dao – Vietnam
- Actinodaphne trichocarpa C.K.Allen – China (Sichuan, northeastern Yunnan, and Guizhou)
- Actinodaphne tsaii Hu – China (southern and southeastern Yunnan)
- Actinodaphne venosa S.Julia – Borneo
- Actinodaphne wightiana (Kuntze) Noltie – Borneo
Formerly placed here[edit]
- Litsea ligustrina (Nees) Fern.-Vill. (as Actinodaphne quinqueflora Nees) – Bangladesh, southwestern India, Myanmar, northeastern Pakistan, Sri Lanka
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Actinodaphne Nees. Plants of the World Online, Kew Science. Accessed 11 April 2023.
- ^ a b c Flora of China
- "Actinodaphne". Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.