''Endlicheria'' is a neotropical plant genus consisting of approximately 60 species, occurring mostly in northern South America and the Amazon region. Most species are medium-sized trees, sometime up to 40 metres in height, but a few species are shrubs.
DNA molecular data shows that it is closely related to ''
Rhodostemonodaphne'' and ''
Ocotea
''Ocotea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. Many are evergreen trees with lauroid leaves.
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This genus has many species of high commercial value to the wood industry.
''Endlicheria'' species occur mostly in the drainage area of the
Amazon
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from
South America
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, and low coast rainforest and mountain tropical forest in the Greater Antilles, Guianas, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, to the south of Brazil, and in the Andean
cloud forest in tropical America. The species of ''Endlicheria'' occur in moist forest habitats from elevations of around sea level to 2.500 meters in the Andean and Guianian highlands. At least two species are present in mountain cloud forest and Atlantic forest of south east Brazil, and two other species in Caribbean Lesser Antilles mountain cloud forest.
Taxonomy
Traditionally, ''Endlicheria'' was placed near ''
Aniba'' and the other Lauraceae with two locellate anthers.
[ However, it has been suggested that the two-locellate anthers that distinguish ''Endlicheria'' from ''Rhodostemonodaphne'' evolved repeatedly.][ The two genera form a group of approximately 100 known species.][
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Characteristics
Leaves congested at the apex of the branches, flowers in panicles with racemose endings.
The plants are dioecious, i.e., male and female flowers appear on different trees.
Selected species
*'' Endlicheria acuminata'' Kosterm.
*'' Endlicheria anomala'' (Nees
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*'' Endlicheria arachnocome'' Chanderb.
*'' Endlicheria arenosa'' Chanderb.
*'' Endlicheria argentea'' Chanderb.
*'' Endlicheria bracteata'' Mez
*'' Endlicheria bracteolata'' (Meisn.) C.K.Allen
*'' Endlicheria browniana'' (Meisn.) Mez
*'' Endlicheria chalisea'' Chanderb.
*'' Endlicheria citriodora''
*'' Endlicheria chrysovelutina'' Chanderb.
*'' Endlicheria cocuirey'' Kosterm.
*'' Endlicheria columbiana'' (Meissner) Mez
*'' Endlicheria gracilis'' Kosterm.
*'' Endlicheria griseosericea'' Chanderb.
*'' Endlicheria klugii'' O.C.Schmidt
*'' Endlicheria krukovii'' (A.C.Sm.) Kosterm.
*'' Endlicheria robusta'' (A.C.Sm.) Kosterm.
*''Endlicheria tschudyana
''Endlicheria'' is a neotropical plant genus consisting of approximately 60 species, occurring mostly in northern South America and the Amazon region. Most species are medium-sized trees, sometime up to 40 metres in height, but a few species are ...
'' (Lasser) Kosterm.
*'' Endlicheria verticillata'' Mez
*'' Endlicheria vinotincta'' C.K.Allen
*'' Endlicheria williamsii'' O.C.Schmidt
*'' Endlicheria xerampela'' Chanderb.
References
External links
* http://lauraceae.myspecies.info/category/lauraceae/lauraceae/endlicheria
''Endlicheria'' in Bolivia checklist
Dioecious plants
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