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|accepted_name=Litsea
|accepted_authority=Lamarck
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|title=Encycl.
|place=3: 574. 1792, name conserved
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|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
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--><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><!--

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|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>
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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.
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|genus=Litsea
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