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==Overview==
==Overview==
They are hermaphroditic [[shrub]]s, [[bush]]es or [[tree]]s of medium size up to 5 m tall.<ref>http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/PDF07/Dehaasia.pdf</ref> in tropical montane forest, lowland rainforest,<ref>http://www.wildsidephotography.ca/gallery/Database/26000_G</ref> subtropical coastal lowland rainforest, [[Cloud forest]], and [[Laurel forest]].
They are hermaphroditic [[shrub]]s, or [[tree]]s of medium size up to 5 m tall.<ref>http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/PDF07/Dehaasia.pdf</ref> in tropical montane forest, lowland rainforest,<ref>http://www.wildsidephotography.ca/gallery/Database/26000_G</ref> subtropical coastal lowland rainforest, [[Cloud forest]], and [[Laurel forest]].
About 35 species in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, with the center of diversity in west Malaysia; three species in China, two endemic.<ref name="harvard1">http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/PDF07/Dehaasia.pdf</ref>
About 35 species in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, with the center of diversity in west Malaysia; three species in China, two endemic.<ref name="harvard1">http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/PDF07/Dehaasia.pdf</ref>


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The branchlets yellow-white at first, but a little gray later, thin, glabrous, warty, lenticellate with distinctive leaf scars, the young more or less angled.
The branchlets yellow-white at first, but a little gray later, thin, glabrous, warty, lenticellate with distinctive leaf scars, the young more or less angled.
The [[sheet]]s are grouped at the apex of the twig: The [[inflorescence]]s in [[tassel]]s arm, generally thin with many [[bracts]] with few flowers, usually upright and branched at right angles.<ref>http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/pdf/pdf07/Dehaasia.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=112365&flora_id=2</ref> The [[fruit]] is black-dark and shiny, generally scarlet but sometimes yellow or green.<ref>http://131.230.176.4/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Dehaasia_cairocan&rank=binomial</ref> Usually ovoid, rarely globose with an [[exocarp]] fleshy and meaty. Some species have a red or scarlet dome.<ref>http://www.phytoimages.siu.edu/imgs/pelserpb/r/Lauraceae_Dehaasia_cairocan_24856.html</ref>
The [[sheet]]s are grouped at the apex of the twig: The [[inflorescence]]s in [[tassel]]s arm, generally thin with many [[bracts]] with few flowers, usually upright and branched at right angles.<ref>http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/pdf/pdf07/Dehaasia.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=112365&flora_id=2</ref>
The oblong berries, hard or fleshy are conformed to attract and frequently the berries are brightly colored with sometimes besides a thickened strikingly colored stem at the junction of the peduncle part with the fruit.
The [[fruit]] is black-dark and shiny, generally scarlet but sometimes yellow or green.<ref>http://131.230.176.4/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Dehaasia_cairocan&rank=binomial</ref> Usually ovoid, rarely globose with an [[exocarp]] fleshy and meaty. Some species have a red or scarlet dome.<ref>http://www.phytoimages.siu.edu/imgs/pelserpb/r/Lauraceae_Dehaasia_cairocan_24856.html</ref>
Seed distribution of Dehaasia species is due to vertebrates mostly. The oblong berries, hard or fleshy are conformed to attract and frequently the berries are brightly colored with sometimes besides a thickened strikingly colored stem at the junction of the peduncle part with the fruit. They are eaten by [[frugivore|frugivorous]] bats and birds, [[columbiformes]] and they are also consumed by several insects as ants.
Seed dispersal of Dehaasia species is due to vertebrates mostly. They are eaten by [[frugivore|frugivorous]] bats and birds, [[columbiformes]] and they are also consumed by several insects as ants.

==Selected species==
==Selected species==
Some names in the repository Global Names Index of uBio:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gni.globalnames.org/data_sources/2?search_term=ns%3ADEH* |title=Global Names Index |publisher=Gni.globalnames.org |date= |accessdate=2011-11-11}}</ref>
Some names in the repository Global Names Index of uBio:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gni.globalnames.org/data_sources/2?search_term=ns%3ADEH* |title=Global Names Index |publisher=Gni.globalnames.org |date= |accessdate=2011-11-11}}</ref>

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Dehaasia
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Dehaasia

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Dehaasia is a genus of evergreen or deciduous trees or shrubs belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae. It is a botanical genus to 53 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. Distributed from continental Asia, from India to China, and islands from Borneo, New Guinea, Java, and Indonesia. The genus was described by Carl Ludwig Blume and published in Rumphi 1: 161 in 1837. (Jun 1837).[1]

Overview

They are hermaphroditic shrubs, or trees of medium size up to 5 m tall.[2] in tropical montane forest, lowland rainforest,[3] subtropical coastal lowland rainforest, Cloud forest, and Laurel forest. About 35 species in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, with the center of diversity in west Malaysia; three species in China, two endemic.[4]

Alseodaphne, Dehaasia and Nothaphoebe are, morphologically, three closely related but different genera in a subgroup near to Persea genus. The leaves are bright green to dark green, shiny and alternate.[5][6] The leaves are oblong to lanceolate to almost elliptical, acuminate and slightly cut at the base. The leaves are leathery in texture, glossy on both sides, dark green on the upper face more intense, sometimes with small blisters on the underside.

The trunk is rough and irregular, covered usually with a paper bark whitish or gray, smooth and easy to peel , with the xylem yellow. Some species with multiple stems or trunks strongly branched from the base. The young branches are slender, angular, with smooth integument, with visible signs of scars and sometimes reddish areas of recent growth.

The branchlets yellow-white at first, but a little gray later, thin, glabrous, warty, lenticellate with distinctive leaf scars, the young more or less angled.

The sheets are grouped at the apex of the twig: The inflorescences in tassels arm, generally thin with many bracts with few flowers, usually upright and branched at right angles.[7][8]

The oblong berries, hard or fleshy are conformed to attract and frequently the berries are brightly colored with sometimes besides a thickened strikingly colored stem at the junction of the peduncle part with the fruit. The fruit is black-dark and shiny, generally scarlet but sometimes yellow or green.[9] Usually ovoid, rarely globose with an exocarp fleshy and meaty. Some species have a red or scarlet dome.[10] Seed dispersal of Dehaasia species is due to vertebrates mostly. They are eaten by frugivorous bats and birds, columbiformes and they are also consumed by several insects as ants.

Selected species

Some names in the repository Global Names Index of uBio:[11]

References

  1. ^ "Name - !!Dehaasia Blume". Tropicos. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
  2. ^ http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/PDF07/Dehaasia.pdf
  3. ^ http://www.wildsidephotography.ca/gallery/Database/26000_G
  4. ^ http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/PDF07/Dehaasia.pdf
  5. ^ http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=109471
  6. ^ http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=112365&flora_id=2
  7. ^ http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/pdf/pdf07/Dehaasia.pdf
  8. ^ http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=112365&flora_id=2
  9. ^ http://131.230.176.4/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Dehaasia_cairocan&rank=binomial
  10. ^ http://www.phytoimages.siu.edu/imgs/pelserpb/r/Lauraceae_Dehaasia_cairocan_24856.html
  11. ^ "Global Names Index". Gni.globalnames.org. Retrieved 2011-11-11.

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