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''Endlicheria'' is a neotropical botanical genus with 60 [[species]] of [[flowering plant]]s, shrubs and trees, mostly hardwood evergreen trees belonging to the family [[Lauraceae]]. |
''Endlicheria'' is a neotropical botanical genus with 60 [[species]] of [[flowering plant]]s, shrubs and trees, mostly hardwood evergreen trees belonging to the family [[Lauraceae]]. |
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''Endlicheria'' is a South America-centered genus of the Ocotea complex. DNA molecular data shows that its members are nested within the [[Rhodostemonodaphne]] and [[Ocotea]] clade forming three closely related genera. Sixty species of Endlicheria are recognized. Two species are transferred to Rhodostemonodaphne. Nine infrageneric species groups are informally recognized in ''Endlicheria''. Of these, the ''[[Endlicheria punctulata]]'' species group is closer to species of the ''[[Ocotea cernua]]'' species group than to its congeners, in both molecular and morphological aspects. Representatives of each of the eight remaining species groups are united with a diverse representation of Rhodostemonodaphne in a well-supported but unresolved clade. The Endlicheria-Rhodostemonodaphne relation is manifested. It is suggested that the two-locellate anthers that distinguish Endlicheria from Rhodostemonodaphne evolved repeatedly.<ref name=Chanderbali>{{cite book|title=''Endlicheria'' (Lauraceae)|author=André S. Chanderbali|series=Flora Neotropica|volume=91|year=2004|pages=1-141|url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/4393929}}</ref> |
''Endlicheria'' is a South America-centered genus of the Ocotea complex. DNA molecular data shows that its members are nested within the [[Rhodostemonodaphne]] and [[Ocotea]] clade forming three closely related genera. Sixty species of Endlicheria are recognized. Two species are transferred to Rhodostemonodaphne. Nine infrageneric species groups are informally recognized in ''Endlicheria''. Of these, the ''[[Endlicheria punctulata]]'' species group is closer to species of the ''[[Ocotea cernua]]'' species group than to its congeners, in both molecular and morphological aspects. Representatives of each of the eight remaining species groups are united with a diverse representation of Rhodostemonodaphne in a well-supported but unresolved clade. The Endlicheria-Rhodostemonodaphne relation is manifested. It is suggested that the two-locellate anthers that distinguish Endlicheria from Rhodostemonodaphne evolved repeatedly.<ref name=Chanderbali>{{cite book|title=''Endlicheria'' (Lauraceae)|author=André S. Chanderbali|series=Flora Neotropica|volume=91|year=2004|pages=1-141|url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/4393929}}</ref> |
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Endlicheria is a neotropical plant genus consisting of approximately 60 species, occurring mostly in northern South America and the Amazon region.
Overview
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Endlicheria is a neotropical botanical genus with 60 species of flowering plants, shrubs and trees, mostly hardwood evergreen trees belonging to the family Lauraceae. Endlicheria is a South America-centered genus of the Ocotea complex. DNA molecular data shows that its members are nested within the Rhodostemonodaphne and Ocotea clade forming three closely related genera. Sixty species of Endlicheria are recognized. Two species are transferred to Rhodostemonodaphne. Nine infrageneric species groups are informally recognized in Endlicheria. Of these, the Endlicheria punctulata species group is closer to species of the Ocotea cernua species group than to its congeners, in both molecular and morphological aspects. Representatives of each of the eight remaining species groups are united with a diverse representation of Rhodostemonodaphne in a well-supported but unresolved clade. The Endlicheria-Rhodostemonodaphne relation is manifested. It is suggested that the two-locellate anthers that distinguish Endlicheria from Rhodostemonodaphne evolved repeatedly.[2] This genus has many high commercial value plant species that were supplied by wood industry, because there are many more studies on its distribution, biology and ecology, looking for timber.
Endlicheria species are extended mostly in the drainage area of the Amazon from South America, and low coast rainforest and mountain tropical forest in the Greater Antilles, Guianas, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, to the south of Brazil, and in the Andean cloud forest in tropical America. The species of Endlicheria occurs in moist forest habitats from elevations of around sea level to 2.500 meters in the Andean and Guianian highlands. At least two species are present in mountain cloud forest and Atlantic forest of south east Brazil, and two other species in Caribbean lesser Antilles mountain cloud forest. The species classified now in Endlicheria were previously spread over the Lauraceae genera of Ampelodaphne, Brassiodendron, Goeppertia, and Huberodaphne. Traditionally, Endlicheria was placed near Aniba and the other of the Lauraceae with two locellate anthers.[2]
Rhodostemonodaphne, with four locellate anthers, was classified with Nectandra, but form a monophylogenetic genus close to Endlicheria. The two genera form a group of approximately 100 known species.[2]
Characteristics
Flowers bell-shaped, covered outside with hair-like (pubescent). Flower with three fertile stamens. Stamens of the third grade are fertile. Leaves congested at the apex of the branches, flowers in panicles with racemose endings, when present small dome over the fruit and single border. This genus is closely related to Licaria and Aiouea.
They are dioecious[3] Lauraceae trees sometimes over 30 m</ref> tall. The inflorescence are panicle with racemose terminations.
Selected species
- Endlicheria acuminata Kosterm.
- Endlicheria anomala (Nees) Mez
- Endlicheria arachnocome Chanderbali
- Endlicheria arenosa Chanderbali
- Endlicheria argentea Chanderbali
- Endlicheria bracteolata (Meisn.) C.K.Allen
- Endlicheria bracteata Mez
- Endlicheria citriodora van der Werff
- Endlicheria chalisea Chanderbali
- Endlicheria browniana Mez
- Endlicheria chrysovelutina Chanderbali
- Endlicheria cocuirey Kostermans
- Endlicheria colombiana (Meissner) Mez
- Endlicheria gracilis Kostermans
- Endlicheria griseo-sericea Chanderbali
- Endlicheria klugii O. C. Schmidt
- Endlicheria krukovii (A. C. Smith) Kostermans
- Endlicheria tschudyana (Lasser) Kostermans
- Endlicheria robusta (A.C.Sm.) Kosterm.
- Endlicheria verticillata Mez
- Endlicheria vinotincta C.K.Allen
- Endlicheria williamsii O. C. Schmidt
- Endlicheria xerampela Chanderbali
References
- ^ "Vascular Plant Families And Genera: List Of Genera In Lauraceae".
- ^ a b c André S. Chanderbali (2004). Endlicheria (Lauraceae). Flora Neotropica. Vol. 91. pp. 1–141.
- ^ Andre Chanderbali (1996). "Novelties in Guianian Endlicheria (Lauraceae)". Novon. 6 (4): 328–334.
External links
- http://lauraceae.myspecies.info/category/lauraceae/lauraceae/endlicheria
- Endlicheria in Bolivia checklist
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