''Apollonias'' is a genus of

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s belonging to the laurel family,

Lauraceae Lauraceae, or the laurels, is a plant family that includes the true laurel and its closest relatives. This family comprises about 2850 known species in about 45 genera worldwide (Christenhusz & Byng 2016 ). They are dicotyledons, and occur m ...

. The genus includes from one to 10

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s and

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s, depending on circumscription; recent studies have limited the genus to just one species, with the others transferred to ''

Beilschmiedia ''Beilschmiedia'' is a genus of trees and shrubs in family Lauraceae. Most of its species grow in tropical climates, but a few of them are native to temperate regions, and they are widespread in tropical Asia, Africa, Madagascar, Australi ...

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Species

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Apollonias barbujana ''Apollonias barbujana '', the Canary laurel or barbusano, is perhaps the only species of flowering plants belonging to the genus ''Apollonias'' of the laurel family, Lauraceae. It is endemic to the Macaronesian islands of Madeira and the Canary ...

'' (syn. ''A. canariensis'') Canary laurel, barbusano, -

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;Other species sometimes included * ''A. arnottii'' - Western Ghats * ''A. grandiflora'' (syn. ''Beilschmiedia velutina'') * ''A. madagascariensis'' (syn. ''B. madagascariensis'') * ''A. microphylla'' (syn. ''B. microphylla'') * ''A. oppositifolia'' (syn. ''B. opposita'') voakoromanga -

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Afric ...

* ''A. sericea'' (syn. ''B. sericans'') * ''A. velutina'' (syn. ''B. velutina'') * ''A. zeylanica'' (syn. ''B. zeylanica'')

References

Lauraceae genera Monotypic Laurales genera Lauraceae {{Laurales-stub