''Urbanodendron'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family

Lauraceae Lauraceae, or the laurels, is a plant Family (biology), family that includes the bay laurel, true laurel and its closest relatives. This family comprises about 2850 known species in about 45 genus (biology), genera worldwide. They are dicotyled ...

. The three species are native to

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

. Little information is available about the genus because the species are rare and endangered. These are evergreen monoecious trees with alternately arranged leaves. The flowers have six

tepals A tepal is one of the outer parts of a flower (collectively the perianth). The term is used when these parts cannot easily be classified as either sepals or petals. This may be because the parts of the perianth are undifferentiated (i.e. of ve ...

and nine

stamens The stamen (: stamina or stamens) is a part consisting of the male reproductive organs of a flower. Collectively, the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filamen ...

. Quinet, A
Sinopse taxonômica da família Lauraceae no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
''Acta bot. bras'' 19.3 (2005): 563-572. These are endemic species of the Brazilian tropical seasonal semi-deciduous montane forests, the

cloud forest A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest, is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, Montane forest, montane, Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, moist forest characteri ...

. In 1978, after five centuries of occupation and the effects of various economic cycles, the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, has been reduced to about only 7.6% of its original extension, in a drastic deforestation.Christo, A. G., et al. (2009)
Structure of the shrub-arboreal component of an Atlantic forest fragment on a hillock in the central lowland of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
''Interciencia: Revista de ciencia y tecnología de América'', 34(4), 232-239.

Species

There are three species: * '' Urbanodendron bahiense'' ( Meisn.) Rohwer * '' Urbanodendron macrophyllum'' Rohwer * '' Urbanodendron verrucosum'' (Nees) Mez

References

Lauraceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Endemic flora of Brazil Lauraceae {{Laurales-stub