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Lauraceae taxonomy
Note on Classification
List of names from TROPICOS - all other data entered by us.
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Phyllostemonodaphne Kosterm.
Nomenclature
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Family: Lauraceae
SUMMARY
Trees. Leaves alternate, penninerved. Inflorescences in the axils of cataphylls below a terminal or axillary vegetative bud, botryoid, few-flowered. Flowers trimerous, bisexual. Tepals 9 (the normal 6 plus 3 tepaloid staminodes). Fertile stamens 6, with very broad filaments, all with a pair of glands. Outer 3 anthers introrse, inner 3 anthers latrorse. Ovary superior but half included in a cup-shaped receptacle. Fruit ellipsoid, with a shallow, double rimmed cupule.