Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite, coriaceous, usually elliptic, sometimes linear, pinnately nerved or digitately 3-nerved from near or at base
Inflorescences subterminal or axillary, thyrso-paniculate
Flowers bisexual, 3-merous, rarely solitary
Perianth: tube ovoid, turbinate or subcylindrical, accrescent and constricted above after flowering
Tepals in 2 whorls of 3, subequal, deciduous
Stamens 9, fertile, in 3 whorls, those of outer 2 whorls with introrse anthers, of third whorl arising on upper part of perianth tube and with extrorse anthers and filaments with 2 sessile or stipitate glands; filaments usually shorter than anthers; anthers all 2-thecous; staminodes of whorl four conspicuous, often ± sagittate
Ovary sessile, enclosed in tube; style cylindrical, included or shortly exserted; stigma slightly expanded
Fruit globose or subcylindrical, entirely enclosed in the enlarged hardened or fleshy perianth tube, with minute orifice at apex, smooth or longitudinally ribbed; pericarp hard or membranous
Seed globose; testa membranous, not or hardly separable from pericarp
x = 12
Nomenclature:
Cryptocarya R.Br.
Brown: 402 (1810)
Nees: 192, 205 (1836)
Endlicher: 318 (1837)
Meisner: 68 (1864)
Baillon: 472 (1870)
Bentham: 150 (1880)
Pax: 122 (1889)
Stapf: 172 (1909)
Stapf: 494 (1912)
Kostermans: 91 (1938)
Van der Werff: 384 (1991)
Rohwer: 386 (1993)
Verdcourt: 7 (1996)
Diniz: 49 (1997)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species ± 350, pantropical, centred in lndo-Malayan area with few in Australia and Africa
Southern Africa: Species 7, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape
References:
BAILLON, H.E. 1870. Monographie des Lauracées, Élaeagnacées et Myrticacées. Histoire des plantes. Hachette, Paris
BENTHAM, G. 1880. Laurineae. In G. Bentham & J.D. Hooker, Genera plantarum 3,1. Lovell Reeve & Co., London
BROWN, R. 1810. Laurinae Vent. Prodromus florae novae Hollandiae et Insulae van-Diemen 1. J. Johnson & Co., London
DINIZ, M.A. 1997. Lauraceae. Flora zambesiaca 9,2
ENDLICHER, S.L. 1837. Laurinae. Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita. Beck, Vienna
KOSTERMANS, A.J.G.H. 1938. The African Lauraceae 1. (Revision of the Lauraceae IV). Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État Bruxelles 15
MEISNER, C.F. 1864. Lauraceae. In A. de Candolle, Prodromus 15. Masson & Sons, Paris
NEES von ESENBECK, C.G.D. 1836. Systema laurinarum: 192, 205. Veit, Berlin
PAX, F. 1889. Lauraceae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien III, 2
ROHWER, J.G. 1993. Lauraceae. In K. Kubitzki, J.G. Rohwer & V. Bittrich, The families and genera of vascular plants - dicotyledons 2. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
STAPF, O. 1909. Laurineae. Flora of tropical Africa 6,1
STAPF, O. 1912. Laurineae. Flora capensis 5,1
VAN DER WERFF, H. 1991. A key to the genera of Lauraceae in the New World. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 78
VERDCOURT, B. 1996. Flora of tropical East Africa. Lauraceae
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