View source for Litsea ← Litsea You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Litsea |accepted_authority=Lamarck |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Encycl. |place=3: 574. 1792, name conserved }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Lauraceae;Litsea |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lauraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Litsea]]</div></div> |etymology=Litsé, the Chinese name for the plant |volume=Volume 3 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[or trees], deciduous [or evergreen]. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, not aromatic. <b>Leaf</b> blade pinnately veined, rarely with 3 primary veins, leathery; surfaces glabrous or variously pubescent; domatia absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> appearing with or before new leaves, axillary, pseudoumbels, subtended by decussate bracts. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual, staminate and pistillate on different plants; tepals deciduous, yellow, green, or white, equal, glabrous. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: stamens 9 (or 12); anthers 4-locular, 4-valved, introrse. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: staminodes 9 (or 12); ovary globose. <b>Drupe</b> red, globose, seated in small, single-rimmed cupule.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America;mostly in Asia. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 400 (1 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Mexico has four species of <i>Litsea</i>, one of which extends to Costa Rica in Central America. <i>Litsea</i> merits revision and, as accepted here, it is probably polyphyletic. It is very similar to <i>Lindera</i> and best recognized by its 4-locular anthers (2-locular in <i>Lindera</i>).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Litsea |author=Henk van der Werff |authority=Lamarck |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Lauraceae |distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America;mostly in Asia. |reference=None |publication title=Encycl. |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_1116.xml |genus=Litsea }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Lauraceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Lauraceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Litsea.