Caryodaphnopsis

Caryodaphnopsis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Caryodaphnopsis
Airy Shaw
Species

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Caryodaphnopsis is a genus of 16 species[1] belonging to the flowering plant family Lauraceae, 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.

The genus is 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[2] to Brazil, crossing Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela).

Taxonomic history

Caryodaphnopsis burgeri leaves

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.[3]

Species

Species include:[4]

References

  1. ^ Li, L.; Madriñán, S.; Li, J. (2016), "Phylogeny and biogeography of Caryodaphnopsis (Lauraceae) inferred from low-copy nuclear gene and ITS sequences", Taxon, 65 (3): 433–443, doi:10.12705/653.1
  2. ^ "Flora and Fauna Golfito, Costa Rica". Golfito-costarica.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-23. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
  3. ^ Henk van der Werff & H. G. Richter (1985). "Caryodaphnopsis Airy-Shaw (Lauraceae), a Genus New to the Neotropics". Systematic Botany. 10 (2): 166–173. doi:10.2307/2418342. JSTOR 2418342.
  4. ^ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species".

"North Indochinese Ecosystems". Terrestrial-biozones.net. Retrieved 2012-06-12.