''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
''Rhodostemonodaphne'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae. It is a neotropical genus consisting of approximately 41 species occurring in Central America and northern South America. This genus has many species that are val ...
'' and ''
Ocotea''.
This genus has many species of high commercial value to the wood industry.
''Endlicheria'' species occur mostly in the drainage area of the
Amazon from
South America, 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
A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest (TMCF), is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud c ...
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
''Aniba'' is an American neotropical flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae. They are present in low and mountain cloud forest in Caribbean islands, Central America, and northern to central South America.
Description
They are shrubs o ...
'' 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.][
]
Characteristics
Leaves congested at the apex of the branches, flowers in panicles with racemose endings.
The plants are dioecious
Dioecy (; ; adj. dioecious , ) is a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct individual organisms (unisexual) that produce male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Dioecious reproductio ...
, i.e., male and female flowers appear on different trees.
Selected species
*'' Endlicheria acuminata'' Kosterm.
*'' Endlicheria anomala'' ( Nees) Mez
*'' Endlicheria arachnocome'' Chanderb.
*'' Endlicheria arenosa'' Chanderb.
*''Endlicheria argentea
''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 ...
'' Chanderb.
*'' Endlicheria bracteata'' Mez
*'' Endlicheria bracteolata'' (Meisn.) C.K.Allen
*'' Endlicheria browniana'' (Meisn.) Mez
*''Endlicheria chalisea
''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 ...
'' Chanderb.
*''Endlicheria citriodora
''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 ...
''
*''Endlicheria chrysovelutina
''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 ...
'' Chanderb.
*''Endlicheria cocuirey
''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 ...
'' Kosterm.
*''Endlicheria columbiana
''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 ...
'' (Meissner) Mez
*''Endlicheria gracilis
''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 ...
'' Kosterm.
*''Endlicheria griseosericea
''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 ...
'' Chanderb.
*''Endlicheria klugii
''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 ...
'' O.C.Schmidt
*''Endlicheria krukovii
''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 ...
'' (A.C.Sm.) Kosterm.
*''Endlicheria robusta
''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 ...
'' (A.C.Sm.) Kosterm.
*'' Endlicheria tschudyana'' (Lasser) Kosterm.
*'' Endlicheria verticillata'' Mez
*'' Endlicheria vinotincta'' C.K.Allen
*''Endlicheria williamsii
''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 ...
'' 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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