Licaria

Licaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophytas
(unranked):	Magnoliids
Order:	Laurales
Family:	Lauraceae
Genus:	Licaria Aubl.
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Acrodiclidium Nees & Mart. Chanekia Lundell Gamanthera van der Werff Misanteca Schltdl. & Cham. Nobeliodendron O.C.Schmidt

Licaria is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, endemic of Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with 40 species. These trees have a resilient wood, useful as timber, for construction and as firewood.

Description

Are trees or rarely bushes; They are plants hermaphrodites. The leaves are alternate, rarely opposite, entire, subcoriaceous (in Nicaragua), glabrous on the upper, glabrous or pubescent on the underside, pinnatinervium. The inflorescences in axillary, paniculata so capitated, the tepals generally the same, with three stamens, the anthers exserted or included at anthesis, filaments free or fused. The fruit is a bay with an underlying dome double border.

Species

Include:

• Licaria brittoniana
• Licaria cannella (Meisn.) Kosterm. – amarillo aguacatillo, amarillo piedro
• Licaria cubensis
• Licaria triandra – Florida Licaria
• Licaria velutina

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.