Litsea

Litsea glutinosa

Litsea is a genus of flowering plants of the laurel family ( Lauraceae ) with 200 to 400 species, mostly form the shrubs, rare trees. The main distribution area is located in the tropics and subtropics of Asia, some species are found in Australia and North America to South America.

Description

Litsea species form evergreen or deciduous, dioecious shrubs or rarely trees. The leaves grow mostly alternate, rarely opposite or whorled. You are not fragrant. The leaf blade is leathery, finely veined and rarely shows three main veins. The leaf surface is glabrous or hairy. Domatien missing.

The inflorescences appear before or with the new leaves. Are formed in the leaf axils individually standing or arranged in groups umbels, cymes or panicles doldige. The four to six bracts grow decussate and remain until the flower on the plant. Most six-part Perianthröhre is long or short, the tepals arranged in two whorls to three leaves, rarely absent or there are eight leaves formed. They are yellow, green or white and hairless. The flowers are unisexual. The male flowers usually have between nine and twelve, rarely more fertile stamens, arranged in three or four whorls of three stamens. The stamens of the first and second whorl are usually drüsenlos, at the base of the third and fourth whorl two glands are formed. The anthers facing inward ( intrors ) and consist of four chambers, they open by flaps. A rudimentary trained stamp may be present. The female flowers have the same number of staminodes as the male stamens. The ovary is roundish upper constant, the scar is formed clearly.

The red and roundish stone fruits grow in the Perianthröhre that Perianthröhre is increased more or less in the fruit, flat disc- shaped deep cup-shaped or unchanged.

Dissemination

The about 200 to 400 species usually grow in tropical or subtropical Asia, a few species in Australia and North America to the subtropical South America. 74 species growing in China, of which 47 are endemic. Four species growing in Mexico, one of which is also found in Costa Rica. A species has its area of ​​distribution in the United States.

Systematics and history of research

Litsea is a genus of the laurel family ( Lauraceae ). It was first described in 1792 by Jean Baptiste de Lamarck in the Encyclopédie de Monnet méthodique, Botanique. The scientific name is derived from Litse, the Chinese name of the plant. The genus is probably polyphyletic, a revision is pending. The types are similar to those of the genus Lindera, they differ from them by the vierkammerigen dust bag, Lindera species form only two chambers. Synonyms of the genus are Iozoste Nees, Sebifera Lour. and tetra Thera Jacq ..

The Plant List the following types can be distinguished:

  • Litsea accedens ( flower) Boerl.
  • Litsea acuminata ( Teschner ) Kosterm.
  • Litsea acutivena Hayata
  • Litsea aestivalis (L.) Fernald
  • Litsea akoensis Hayata
  • Litsea albescens ( Hook. f ) D. G. Long
  • Litsea albicans (short ) Hook. f
  • Litsea ambigua ( flower) Boerl.
  • Litsea apetala ( Roxb. ) Pers.
  • Litsea auriculata S. S. Chien & W. C. Cheng
  • Litsea balansae Lecomte
  • Litsea baviensis Lecomte
  • Litsea beilschmiediifolia H. W. Li
  • Litsea biflora H. B. Cui
  • Litsea borneensis ( Meisn. ) Boerl.
  • Litsea calicaris ( ex A. Cunn Sol.. ) Benth. & Hook. f ex Kirk
  • Litsea cangyuanensis J. Li & H. W. Li
  • Litsea cauliflora ( Moon ) Trim.
  • Litsea chaffonjonii H. Lév.
  • Litsea chengshuzhii H. B. Cui
  • Litsea chinensi s Lam.
  • Litsea chinpingensis Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang
  • Litsea chunii W. C. Cheng
  • Litsea citriodora ( Siebold & Zucc. ) Hatus.
  • Litsea clarissae ( Teschner ) Kosterm.
  • Litsea coelestis H. B. Cui
  • Litsea cordata (Jack) Hook. f
  • Litsea costal ( Nees ) Kosterm.
  • Litsea crassifolia ( flower) Boerl.
  • Litsea cubeba ( Lour. ) Pers.
  • Litsea depressa H. B. Cui
  • Litsea dilleniifolia P.Y. Pai & P.H. Huang
  • Litsea dunniana H. Lév.
  • Litsea elongata ( Nees ) Hook. f
  • Litsea company (Blume ) Hook. f
  • Litsea foveola Kosterm.
  • Litsea fulva ( flower) Villar
  • Litsea garciae Vidal
  • Litsea glaberrima ( Thwaites ) Trimen
  • Litsea glaucescens Kunth
  • Litsea globosa Kosterm.
  • Litsea glutinosa ( Lour. ) C.B. Rob.
  • Litsea gongshanensis H. W. Li
  • Litsea grandis ( Nees ) Hook. f
  • Litsea greenmaniana C.K. Allen
  • Litsea hayatae Kaneh.
  • Litsea honghoensis H. Liu
  • Litsea hunanensis Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang
  • Litsea hupehana Hemsl.
  • Litsea hypophaea Hayata
  • Litsea ichangensis Gamble
  • Litsea insignis ( flower) Boerl.
  • Litsea iteodaphne ( Nees ) Hook. f
  • Litsea japonica ( Thunb. ) Jussieu
  • Litsea kingii Hook. f
  • Litsea kobuskiana C.K. Allen
  • Litsea kwangsiensis Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang
  • Litsea kwangtungensis Hung T. Chang
  • Litsea laeta ( Nees ) Hook. f
  • Litsea lancifolia ( Roxb. ex Nees ) Benth. & Hook. f ex Villar
  • Litsea lancilimba Merr.
  • Litsea lanuginosa ( Nees ) Nees
  • Litsea leiantha (short ) Hook. f
  • Litsea liboshengii H. B. Cui
  • Litsea ligustrina ( Nees ) Kosterm.
  • Litsea liyuyingii H. Liu
  • Litsea longifolia ( Nees ) Trimen
  • Litsea longipes ( Meisn. ) Hook. f
  • Litsea longistaminata (H. Liu ) Kosterm.
  • Litsea luzonica ( flower) Villar
  • Litsea machiloides Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang
  • Litsea mairei H. Lév.
  • Litsea martabanica (short ) Hook. f
  • Litsea mishmiensis Hook. f
  • Litsea mollis ( flower) Boerl.
  • Litsea monopetala ( Roxb. ) Pers.
  • Litsea morrisonensis Hayata
  • Litsea moupinensis Lecomte
  • Litsea muelleri Rehder
  • Litsea myricopsis H. Lév.
  • Litsea myristicifolia ( Nees ) Hook. f
  • Litsea neesiana ( Schauer) Hemsl.
  • Litsea nemoralis ( Thwaites ) Trimen
  • Litsea nigricans ( Meisn. ) Boerl.
  • Litsea nitida ( Roxb. ) Hook. f
  • Litsea nuculanea (short ) Hook. f
  • Litsea oblonga ( Nees ) Hook. f
  • Litsea oligophlebia Hung T. Chang
  • Litsea ovalifolia ( Wight ) Trimen
  • Litsea palmatinervia ( Meisn. ) Drake
  • Litsea parvifolia ( Hemsl. ) Mez
  • Litsea pedunculata ( Diels ) Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang
  • Litsea perrottetii ( flower) Fern. - Vill.
  • Litsea pierrei Lecomte
  • Litsea pittosporifolia Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang
  • Litsea populifolia ( Hemsl. ) Gamble
  • Litsea pseudoelongata H. Liu
  • Litsea pungens Hemsl.
  • Litsea rangoonensis ( Meisn. ) Hook. f
  • Litsea rotundifolia Hemsl.
  • Litsea rubescens Lecomte
  • Litsea salicifolia ( Nees ex Roxburgh ) Hook. f
  • Litsea saligna ( Nees ) N.P. Balakr.
  • Litsea seemannii ( Meisn. ) Drake
  • Litsea semecarpifolia ( wall. ex Nees ) Hook. f
  • Litsea sericea ( wall. ex Nees ) Hook. f
  • Litsea sinoglobosa J. Li & H. W. Li
  • Litsea subcoriacea Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang
  • Litsea suberosa Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang
  • Litsea subumbelliflora ( flower) Ng
  • Litsea szemaois (H. Liu ) J. Li & H. W. Li
  • Litsea taronensis H. W. Li
  • Litsea tibetana Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang
  • Litsea tsinlingensis Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang
  • Litsea umbellata ( Lour. ) Merr.
  • Litsea utilis ( Meisn. ) Boerl.
  • Litsea vang Lecomte
  • Litsea variabilis Hemsl.
  • Litsea varians ( flower) Boerl.
  • Litsea veitchiana Gamble
  • Litsea velutina (Blume ) Hook. f
  • Litsea verticillata Hance
  • Litsea verticillifolia Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang
  • Litsea viridis H. Liu
  • Litsea Vitiana ( Meisn. ) Drake
  • Litsea walkeri ( Meisn. ) Trimen
  • Litsea wightiana ( Nees ) Hook. f
  • Litsea wilsonii Gamble
  • Litsea yaoshanensis Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang
  • Litsea yunnanensis Yen C. Yang & P.H. Huang

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