Caryodaphnopsis Explained

Caryodaphnopsis is a genus of 16 species belonging to the flowering plant family Lauraceae, distributed in tropical areas in southern North America, northern South America, and East and Southeast Asia.

They vary from 50-m-high trees to small trees or shrubs in lowland evergreen forest and rainforest.

The genus is distributed across the Pacific, with a marked geographical disjunction between Southeast Asia (South China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) and tropical America (Costa Rica^[1] to Brazil, crossing Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela).

Taxonomic history

Until 1985, the genus was only reported for tropical Asia, but van der Werff and Richter transferred two South American species of the genus Persea to Caryodaphnopsis.^[2]

Species

Species include:^[3]

• • • • Caryodaphnopsis baviensis (Lecomte) Airy Shaw Caryodaphnopsis bilocellata van der Werff & Dao Caryodaphnopsis burgeri N.Zamora & Poveda Caryodaphnopsis cogolloi van der Werff
  • Caryodaphnopsis fieldii & G.A.Romero Caryodaphnopsis fosteri van der Werff
• Caryodaphnopsis henryi Airy Shaw
  • Caryodaphnopsis inaequalis (A.C.Sm.) van der Werff & H.G.Richt. Caryodaphnopsis laotica Airy Shaw
    • Caryodaphnopsis latifolia W.T.Wang Caryodaphnopsis metallica Kosterm. Caryodaphnopsis poilanei Kosterm.
• Caryodaphnopsis theobromifolia (A.H.Gentry) van der Werff & H.G. Richt.
• Caryodaphnopsis tomentosa van der Werff
• Caryodaphnopsis tonkinensis (Lecomte) Airy Shaw

External links

Web site: North Indochinese Ecosystems . Terrestrial-biozones.net . 2012-06-12.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Flora and Fauna Golfito, Costa Rica . Golfito-costarica.com . 2012-06-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120723081553/http://www.golfito-costarica.com/golfito/flora-fauna-golfito.html . 2012-07-23 . dead .
2. Caryodaphnopsis Airy-Shaw (Lauraceae), a Genus New to the Neotropics. Henk van der Werff. H. G. Richter. amp. Systematic Botany. 10. 2. 1985. 166–173. 10.2307/2418342. 2418342.
3. Web site: The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species.