Aniba

• Authority

  Kubitzki, K. & Renner, Susanne S. 1982. Lauraceae I (Aniba and Aiouea). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 31: 1-125. (Published by NYBG Press)

• Family

  Lauraceae

• Scientific Name

  Aniba

• Type

  Type species. Aniba guianensis Aublet.

• Synonyms

  Cedrota Schreb., Aydendron

• Description

  Genus Description - Trees, rarely shrubs, sometimes with xylopodium. Leaves alternate, evenly distributed or clustered at the top of branchlets, evergreen, penninerved, more or less glabrous above, glabrous, pubescent, hirsute, or tomentellous, sometimes microscopically papillose beneath. Inflorescences paniculate, congested, rarely spreading, in the axils of caducous bracts and/or leaves. Flowers hermaphrodite, mostly small, pedicellate, their bracts caducous; floral tube conspicuous, urceolate, rapidly increasing after anthesis; tepals 6, erect, equal, or outer ones smaller than inner ones; stamens usually 9, two-celled, mostly included, the outer 6 with strictly introrse or sublateral-introrse anther cells; filaments as wide as or narrower than anthers; inner 3 stamens erect, provided with two large sessile glands at the base, their anther cells extrorse, or extrorse-latrorse, the inner stamens sometimes staminodial; valves of anther cells opening more or less upwards; staminodes of whorl IV stipitiform, or absent; pistil slender; ovary ellipsoid or ovoid, glabrous or pilose, included in floral tube; style distinct, cylindrical; stigma usually minute, rarely conspicuous, oblique. Berry ellipsoid, smooth, slightly mucronulate, included for 1/3 its length in a woody, subhemispherical, simple or rarely double-margined cupule, the cupule with minute or large wart-like spots outside; fruiting pedicel woody, usually short and distinct from the cupule. Cotyledons flat-convex, large, including the minute plumule and radicle.