Litsea
Genus of flowering plants
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Litsea is a genus of evergreen or deciduous trees or shrubs belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. The genus includes a large number of accepted species in tropical and subtropical areas of Asia, Australasia, the western Pacific, and North and Central America.[1]
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| Litsea japonica | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Magnoliids |
| Order: | Laurales |
| Family: | Lauraceae |
| Genus: | Litsea Lam. |
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Characteristics
They are typically dioecious trees or shrubs. The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen depending on species, and aromatic. They have leaves alternate or opposite or in whorls.[2] The inconspicuous flowers range from greenish to white, greenish-yellow, to yellowish. The inflorescences are pseudo-umbels, flat-topped or rounded flower clusters, each pseudo-umbel with an involucre of four or six decussate bracts.[2]
Selected species
- Litsea auriculata S.S.Chien & W.C.Cheng
- Litsea australis B.Hyland
- Litsea bindoniana (F.Muell.) F.Muell.
- Litsea calicaris Kirk
- Litsea claviflora Gamble
- Litsea cubeba (Lour.) Pers.
- Litsea curtisii Gamble
- Litsea dilleniifolia P.Y.Pai & P.H.Huang
- Litsea garciae S.Vidal
- Litsea gardneri (Thwaites) Meisn.
- Litsea glaberrima (Thwaites) Trimen
- Litsea glaucescens Kunth
- Litsea glutinosa (Lour.) C.B.Rob.
- Litsea granitica B.Hyland
- Litsea hirsutissima Gamble
- Litsea imbricata Guillaumin
- Litsea iteodaphne (Nees) Hook.f.
- Litsea kakkachensis R.Ganesan
- Litsea leefeana (F.Muell.) Merr.
- Litsea leiantha (Kurz) Hook.f.
- Litsea leytensis Merr.
- Litsea ligustrina (Nees) Fern.-Vill.
- Litsea monopetala (Roxb.) Pers.
- Litsea nemoralis (Thwaites) Trimen
- Litsea nigrescens Gamble
- Litsea ovalifolia (Wight) Trimen
- Litsea penangiana Hook.f.
- Litsea reticulata (Meisn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex F.Muell.
- Litsea travancorica Gamble
- Litsea umbellata (Lour.) Merr.
- Litsea wightiana (Nees) Wall. ex Hook.f.
