''Licaria'' is a

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in the

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Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species.

Overview

''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distributed from southern Florida, Mexico to the south of Brazil and Bolivia. In Brazil, the occurrence of 20 species and two subspecies, mostly in the Amazon region (Kurz 2000). These

tree In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are ...

s have a resilient wood, useful as

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, for construction and as firewood.

Description

They are evergreen monoecious, hermaphrodite,

s or rarely

bushes A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...

. Leaves lax at the apex of the branches, without papillae on the abaxial epidermis of the leaves. The leaves are alternate or opposite but rarely opposite, entire, subcoriaceous in some species of Central America as Nicaragua, glabrous on the upper, glabrous or pubescent on the underside, pinnatinervium. Flowers in panicles terminating in a top. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...

s in axillary, paniculata so capitated, the

tepal 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 very ...

s generally the same, with three stamens, the anthers exserted or included at anthesis, filaments free or fused. Flowers monoclinic with hypanthium urceolate, not depressed below the tepals, tepals 6, generally erect, equal inner surface without papillae. Androecium with three stamens fertile, filaments generally the same width as anthers or more slender, anthers bilocelares: 1st and 2nd series with stamens absent or transformed into staminodes; third grade with 3 stamens, a pair of glands at the base of fiaments present, reduced, never fused, or absent, anthers introrse or extrorse-apical; estaminodial fourth grade absent or rarely present with 3 staminodes. The

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is a berry with deciduous tepals.

Species

Species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of 2022: *'' Licaria agglomerata'' *''

Licaria alata ''Licaria'' is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species. Overview ''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distribute ...

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Licaria applanata ''Licaria'' is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species. Overview ''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distributed ...

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Licaria areolata ''Licaria'' is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species. Overview ''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distribute ...

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Licaria armeniaca ''Licaria'' is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species. Overview ''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distribute ...

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Licaria aurea ''Licaria'' is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species. Overview ''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distribute ...

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Licaria aureosericea ''Licaria'' is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species. Overview ''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distribute ...

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Licaria bahiana ''Licaria'' is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species. Overview ''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distribute ...

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Licaria brasiliensis ''Licaria'' is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species. Overview ''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distribute ...

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Licaria brenesii ''Licaria'' is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species. Overview ''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distribute ...

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Licaria brittoniana ''Licaria'' is a flowering plant genus in the family (biology), family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species. Overview ''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 s ...

'' *'' Licaria camara'' *'' Licaria campechiana'' *'' Licaria cannella'' *'' Licaria capitata'' *'' Licaria caribaea'' *'' Licaria carinata'' *'' Licaria caryophyllata'' *'' Licaria caudata'' *'' Licaria cervantesii'' *'' Licaria chinanteca'' *'' Licaria chrysophylla'' *'' Licaria clarensis'' *'' Licaria clavata'' *'' Licaria cogolloi'' *'' Licaria colombiana'' *'' Licaria comata'' *'' Licaria conoidea'' *'' Licaria crassifolia'' *'' Licaria cubensis'' *'' Licaria cufodontisii'' *'' Licaria debilis'' *'' Licaria deltoidea'' *'' Licaria dolichantha'' *'' Licaria endlicheriifolia'' *'' Licaria excelsa'' *'' Licaria exserta'' *'' Licaria filiformis'' *'' Licaria glaberrima'' *'' Licaria guatemalensis'' *''

Licaria guianensis ''Licaria'' is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species. Overview ''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distributed ...

'' *'' Licaria herrerae'' *'' Licaria hirsuta'' *'' Licaria ibarrae'' *'' Licaria latifolia'' *'' Licaria leonis'' *'' Licaria lucida'' *'' Licaria macrophylla'' *'' Licaria martiniana'' *'' Licaria mexicana'' *'' Licaria misantlae'' *'' Licaria multiflora'' *'' Licaria multinervis'' *'' Licaria mutisii'' *'' Licaria nayaritensis'' *'' Licaria nitida'' *'' Licaria oppositifolia'' *'' Licaria pachycarpa'' *'' Licaria parvifolia'' *'' Licaria peckii'' *'' Licaria pergamentacea'' *'' Licaria phymatosa'' *'' Licaria polyphylla'' *'' Licaria pucheri'' *'' Licaria quercina'' *'' Licaria quirirafuina'' *'' Licaria rodriguesii'' *'' Licaria rufotomentosa'' *'' Licaria sarapiquensis'' *'' Licaria sclerophylla'' *'' Licaria sericea'' *'' Licaria sessiliflora'' *'' Licaria siphonantha'' *'' Licaria spiritusanctensis'' *'' Licaria subbullata'' *'' Licaria subsessilis'' *'' Licaria tenuifolia'' *'' Licaria terminalis'' *'' Licaria tomentosa'' *''

Licaria triandra ''Licaria'' is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species. Overview ''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distribute ...

'' *'' Licaria trinervis'' *'' Licaria urceolata'' *'' Licaria velutina'' *'' Licaria vernicosa''

References

H. Kurz. Fortpflanzungsbiologie einiger Gattungen neotropischer Lauraceen und Revision der Gattung Licaria. Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde des Fachbereichs Biologie. Universität Hamburg, Hamburg. 1983. Lauraceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Neotropical realm flora Lauraceae {{Laurales-stub