Caryodaphnopsis
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Caryodaphnopsis is a genus of 15 species belonging to the family Lauraceae of flowering plants. It is distributed in tropical areas in southern North America, northern South America, and East and Southeast Asia.
They vary from 50-m-high trees to small trees or shrubs in lowland evergreen forest and rainforest.
Caryodaphnopsis is a tropical genus distributed across the Pacific, with a marked geographical disjunction between Southeast Asia (South China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) and tropical America (Costa Rica[1] to Brazil, crossing Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela).
Taxonomic History
This genus, originally reported for Asia, was described by Airy Shaw in 1940, who created the genus name due to similarities between the leaves of this with the leaves of some species of Cryptocarya (Caryodaphne). Until 1985, the genus was only reported for tropical Asia, but van der Werff and Richter transferred two South American species of the genus Persea to Caryodaphnopsis.[2]
Species
It contains at least these species:[citation needed]
- Caryodaphnopsis baviensis (Lecomte) Airy Shaw
- Caryodaphnopsis bilocellata van der Werff & Dao
- Caryodaphnopsis burgeri N.Zamora & Poveda
- Caryodaphnopsis cogolloi van der Werff
- Caryodaphnopsis fieldii Aymard & G.A.Romero
- Caryodaphnopsis fosteri van der Werff
- Caryodaphnopsis henryi Airy Shaw
- Caryodaphnopsis inaequalis (A.C.Sm.) van der Werff & H.G.Richt.
- Caryodaphnopsis laotica Airy Shaw
- Caryodaphnopsis latifolia W.T.Wang
- Caryodaphnopsis metallica Kosterm.
- Caryodaphnopsis poilanei Kosterm.
- Caryodaphnopsis theobromifolia (A.H.Gentry) van der Werff & H.G. Richt.
- Caryodaphnopsis tomentosa van der Werff
- Caryodaphnopsis tonkinensis (Lecomte) Airy Shaw
References
- ^ "Flora and Fauna Golfito, Costa Rica". Golfito-costarica.com. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
- ^ Henk van der Werff and H. G. Richter (1985). "Caryodaphnopsis Airy-Shaw (Lauraceae), a Genus New to the Neotropics". Systematic Botany. 10 (2): 166–173.
External links
"North Indochinese Ecosystems". Terrestrial-biozones.net. Retrieved 2012-06-12.