Endlicheria

• Authority

  Chanderbali, Andre S. 2004. (Lauraceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 91: 1-141. (Published by NYBG Press)

• Family

  Lauraceae

• Scientific Name

  Endlicheria

• Type

  Type. Endlicheria hirsuta (Schott) Nees (lectotype, designated by Kostermans, 1937; = Endlicheria paniculata (Spreng.) J. F. Macbr.).

• Synonyms

  Goeppertia, Ampelodaphne, Huberodaphne

• Description

  Genus Description - Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, widely spaced along branchlets or arranged in close spirals; mostly penninerved, occasionally asymmetrically trinerved, tripli- or quintuplinerved. Inflorescences mostly in axils of foliage leaves, but often in cataphylls, thyrso-paniculate, the terminal dichasia rarely reduced to pseudo-umbels or botryoids. Flowers unisexual, trim-erous. Tepals 6, in 2 whorls of 3, usually spreading, rarely inflexed, erect, or reflexed. Stamens 9 in 9 whorls of 9; whorl I and II stamens ± equal, the filaments distinct or undifferentiated, the anthers two-locellate; whorl III stamens usually sessile with indistinctly differentiated filaments, rarely stipitate, the anthers two-locellate, rarely four-locellate, the basal glands sessile or stipitate, rarely absent; fourth whorl of staminodes occasional; pistillode present or absent. Pistillate flowers usually deeper with smaller sterile stamens; ovary superior; stigma tri-lobed, discoid or reniform. Fruits borne on terete or claviform pedicels; cupules usually hemispherical, occasionally flat, rarely reflexed, the margins entire, undulate or with persistent tepal bases; drupes elliptic, obovoid, ovoid, or spheroid.

• Discussion

  The name Schauera was only tentatively offered in place of Endlicheria by Nees (in Lindley, 1836) and is therefore not validly published.

  Endlicheria subgen. Anosphaeria Mez is a synonym of Aiouea Aubl.