Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Lauraceae
Lauraceae
Description:
Description - Evergreen trees, rarely shrubs, with alternate coriaceous leaves and small, perfect or polygamous flowers in axillary or terminal panicles. Perianthsegments 6, nearly equal. Perfect stamens 9, in 3 series; stamens of the first and second series eglandular, their anthers introrsely 4-celled; stamens of the third series with extrorsely 4-celled anthers; staminodia, representing a fourth series of stamens, are present in some species. Ovary wholly or partly enclosed by the perianth-tube; style short. Berry oblong to globose, partly enclosed by the enlarged perianth-tube. [Guiana name.] Probably 300 species, mostly natives of tropical America. Type species: Ocotea guianensis Aubl.
Description - Evergreen trees, rarely shrubs, with alternate coriaceous leaves and small, perfect or polygamous flowers in axillary or terminal panicles. Perianthsegments 6, nearly equal. Perfect stamens 9, in 3 series; stamens of the first and second series eglandular, their anthers introrsely 4-celled; stamens of the third series with extrorsely 4-celled anthers; staminodia, representing a fourth series of stamens, are present in some species. Ovary wholly or partly enclosed by the perianth-tube; style short. Berry oblong to globose, partly enclosed by the enlarged perianth-tube. [Guiana name.] Probably 300 species, mostly natives of tropical America. Type species: Ocotea guianensis Aubl.