Neocinnamomum
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Neocinnamomum (新樟属, xin zhang shu) is a genus of evergreen shrubs or small trees, indigenous to Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia (Sumatra), Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.[1][2]
They inhabit coastal to montane tropical forests, and laurel forests.[3] These trees and shrubs are characteristic of the lower strata of the tropical rainforest but some species are at 20 m tall. They require a warm and wet climate with no extremes of heat and cold.[citation needed] Although there can be months in which there is less rain, no prolonged dry season should occur and rain received on about 150 days per year.[citation needed] Present from rocky and stony ground to waterlogged and marshy areas.[citation needed]
The pollination is by insects[4] that pollinate the very small bisexual[1][2]flowers.[5][6][7] The inflorescences are highly condensed, with poorly defined branching, their overall shape described as "glomerules".[5][8] Birds disperse the seeds by avidly eat the fruit[citation needed] which are berry-like drupes.[2] The fruit are ellipsoid, or round (globose.[1] The trees flower in rainy season and the fruits ripen 6 months later.[citation needed] Some species propagate vegetatively too.[2]
N. mekongense is a species that grows in the mountains north of Dali, China. It is popular with butterflies, which possibly are attracted by secretions from extrafloral nectaries.[9]
Species[citation needed]
- Neocinnamomum caudatum (Nees) Merrill
- Neocinnamomum delavayi (Lecomte) H.Liou
- Neocinnamomum fargesii (Lecomte) Kosterm.
- Neocinnamomum lecomtei H.Liou
- Neocinnamomum mekongense (Hand.-Mazz.) Kosterm.
References
- ^ a b c http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=121914
- ^ a b c d Flora of China
- ^ http://www.umsl.edu/~renners/Laurales%20clocks2005.pdf
- ^ a b full citation needed
- ^ Caroline K. Allen (1939). "Studies in Cinnamomum and Neocinnamomum". Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. 20: 44–63.
- ^ http://www.medicinatradicionalmexicana.unam.mx/monografia.php?l=3&t=Cinnamomum%20zeylanicum&id=7331
- ^ Wang, Z.-h.; Li, J.; Conran, J.; Li, H.-w. (2010). "Phylogeny of the Southeast Asian endemic genus Neocinnamomum H. Liu (Lauraceae)". Plant Systematics and Evolution. 290 (1): 173–184.
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- Flora of China 7: 187–189. 2008.
- Zhi-hua Wang, Jie Li, John G. Conran, Hsi-wen Li, "Phylogeny of the Southeast Asian endemic genus Neocinnamomum H. Liu (Lauraceae)", Plant Syst Evol (2010) 290:173–184. DOI 10.1007/s00606-010-0359-1. [1]
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