Licaria brasiliensis (Nees) Kosterm.

  • Authority

    Allen, Caroline K. 1966. Contributions to the botany of Guiana. II. Lauraceae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 15: 53-95.

  • Family

    Lauraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Licaria brasiliensis (Nees) Kosterm.

  • Description

    Distribution and Ecology - Tree to 15 m, with branchlets some what slender and angular, clothed with a densely minute grayish pubescence, bearing axillary and subterminal, more or less, panicles, the flowers of which are characteristically constricted below the tepals.

  • Discussion

    Acrodiclidium brasiliense Nees, Syst. Laurin. 267. 1936; Kostermans, Rec. Trav. Bot. Neerl. 33: 746. 1936; Meded. Bot. Mus. Utrecht. 37: 746. 1936.

    The species is similar to L. martiniana (Mez) Kostermans but the elliptic leaves and the hemispheric, urceolate flowers, always constricted below the tepals, separate L. brasiliensis from L. martiana.

  • Distribution

    The species occurs throughout the Amazon Basin.

    Brazil South America|