Oreodaphne

Oreodaphne
Tilo (Oreodaphne foetens) in Terra Chã (Azores).
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Magnoliids
Order:	Laurales
Family:	Lauraceae
Genus:	Oreodaphne Aubl.
Species
Over 200, see text
Synonyms
Bellota Gay Mespilodaphne Nees Oreodaphne Nees & Mart. and see text

Oreodaphne is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. The genus includes five species of evergreen trees, distributed mostly in tropical and subtropical regions of South America, Mauritius, California, Sudafrica and Macaronesian archipelagos. Oreodaphne is related with Ocotea where the species was included. Oreodaphne foetens (Til or Tilo), (was set also in Ocotea) native to the islands of Macaronesia.

Oreodaphne trees sometimes are called Mountain laurels. The fruit are succulent, partly immersed in a deep thick cup formed of the tube of the calyx. Oreodaphne opifera is native of the Amazon. Oreodaphne copularis is a very large tree of Mauritius and Madagascar.Oreodaphne bullata, of disagreeable odor found at the cape of Good Hope.

Umbellularia californica is a large tree native to coastal forests of California and slightly extended into Oregon.^[1] It was set formerly in Ocotea and Oreodaphne.

Species

Some species previously classified in Oreodaphne genus, have been reclassified in other genus. Here species that appear classified once next with other denominations.

Oreodaphne Leucoxylon.

Oreodaphne opifera.

Oreodaphne copularis.

Oreodaphne bullata.

Oreodaphne californica (Umbellularia californica).

Oreodaphne foetens, (Ocotea foetens).

Oreodaphne diospyrifolia var. incompta (Ocotea pauciflora).

Oreodaphne florulenta (Ocotea neesiana).

Oreodaphne obtusifolia, (Ocotea obtusifolia).

Oreodaphne costulata (Ocotea aciphylla).

Oreodaphne caudata (Ocotea cernua).

Oreodaphne cernua (Ocotea cernua).

Oreodaphne martiniana, (Ocotea puberula).

Oreodaphne martiniana var. latifolia, (Ocotea puberula).

Oreodaphne warmingii, (Ocotea puberula).

Oreodaphne acutifolia var.latifolia, (Ocotea puberula).

Oreodaphne hostmanniana, (Ocotea puberula).

References

1. ^ "Umbellularia californica". CalFlora. http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=8183. Retrieved 12 January 2010.