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|accepted_name=Litsea
|accepted_authority=Lamarck
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|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 Litsea, one of which extends to Costa Rica in Central America. Litsea merits revision and, as accepted here, it is probably polyphyletic. It is very similar to Lindera and best recognized by its 4-locular anthers (2-locular in Lindera).</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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|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_1116.xml
|genus=Litsea
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