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A Lauraceae or even Lauraceae is the class action of flowering plants included in the choose Laurales. A personal contains astir Xl genera & assibilate 2000 (perchance when numerous when 4000) coinage globe-wide, mostly from either warmly or even tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and Brazil. Virtually all come redolent evergreen trees or bush, however Sassafras & of these or even deuce more genera come deciduous, and Cassytha occurs as genus of parasitic vines.

Trees of the family lauraceae predominate in the globe's laurel forests, which occur in two or three humid subtropic & modest moderate regions of a northern & southern hemispheres, including the Macaronesian islands, southern Japan, Madagascar, and central Chile.

Among a better known genera come a ensuing, with mintage utilized around commerce:

Cinnamomum: Cinnamon, Cassia and Camphor Laurus: Laurel Lindera: Spice bush Persea: Avocado Sassafras: Sassafras

Genera
Actinodaphne
Adenodaphne
Aiouea
Alseodaphne
Anaueria
Aniba
Apollonias
Aspidostemon
Beilschmiedia
Brassiodendron
Caryodaphnopsis
Chlorocardium
Cinnadenia
Cinnamomum
Clinostemon
Cryptocarya
Dehaasia
Dicypellium
Dodecadenia
Endiandra
Endlicheria
Eusideroxylon
Gamanthera
Hexapora
Hypodaphnis
Iteadaphne
Kubitzkia
Laurus
Licaria
Lindera
Litsea
Machilus (often involved around Persea)
Mezilaurus
Nectandra
Neocinnamomum
Neolitsea
Nothaphoebe
Ocotea
Paraia
Persea
Phoebe
Phyllostemonodaphne
Pleurothyrium
Potameia
Potoxylon
Povedadaphne
Ravensara
Rhodostemonodaphne
Sassafras
Syndiclis
Triadodaphne
Umbellularia
Urbanodendron
Williamodendron

Lauraceae
General information on this plant family plus photos and details on individual species.

Families of Flowering Plants: Lauraceae
Habit and leaf form, anatomy, morphology, physiology, biochemistry, and geography.






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