Licaria is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species.
Licaria is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distributed from southern Florida, Mexico to the south of Brazil and Bolivia. In Brazil, the occurrence of 20 species and two subspecies, mostly in the Amazon region (Kurz 2000). These trees have a resilient wood, useful as timber, for construction and as firewood.
They are evergreen monoecious, hermaphrodite, trees or rarely bushes. Leaves lax at the apex of the branches, without papillae on the abaxial epidermis of the leaves. The leaves are alternate or opposite but rarely opposite, entire, subcoriaceous in some species of Central America as Nicaragua, glabrous on the upper, glabrous or pubescent on the underside, pinnatinervium. Flowers in panicles terminating in a top. The inflorescences in axillary, paniculata so capitated, the tepals generally the same, with three stamens, the anthers exserted or included at anthesis, filaments free or fused.
Flowers monoclinic with hypanthium urceolate, not depressed below the tepals, tepals 6, generally erect, equal inner surface without papillae. Androecium with three stamens fertile, filaments generally the same width as anthers or more slender, anthers bilocelares: 1st and 2nd series with stamens absent or transformed into staminodes; third grade with 3 stamens, a pair of glands at the base of fiaments present, reduced, never fused, or absent, anthers introrse or extrorse-apical; estaminodial fourth grade absent or rarely present with 3 staminodes. The fruit is a berry with deciduous tepals.
Species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of 2022:[1]
H. Kurz. Fortpflanzungsbiologie einiger Gattungen neotropischer Lauraceen und Revision der Gattung Licaria. Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde des Fachbereichs Biologie. Universität Hamburg, Hamburg. 1983.
Licaria is a flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae, native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species.
Licaria es un género botánico de plantas en la familia de las Lauraceae, endémica de Centroamérica y de Sudamérica. Es un género neotropical con unas 40 especies.
Son árboles o raramente arbustos; plantas hermafroditas. Las hojas alternas, raramente opuestas, enteras, subcoriáceas (en Nicaragua), glabras en la haz, glabras o pubescentes en el envés, pinnatinervias. Las inflorescencias axilares, paniculadas o capitadas; los tépalos generalmente iguales, con tres estambres, las anteras exertas o incluidas en la antesis, filamentos libres o fusionados. El fruto es una baya con una cúpula subyacente de borde doble.
Licaria es un género botánico de plantas en la familia de las Lauraceae, endémica de Centroamérica y de Sudamérica. Es un género neotropical con unas 40 especies.
Licaria, biljni rod iz porodice lovorovki, raširen po tropskoj Americi. Postoji preko 70 vrsta. [1]
Pihurimsko drvo iz Brazila, predstavnik je ovog roda, a nekada je uključivano u rod okoteja (Ocotea).
Licaria, biljni rod iz porodice lovorovki, raširen po tropskoj Americi. Postoji preko 70 vrsta.
Pihurimsko drvo iz Brazila, predstavnik je ovog roda, a nekada je uključivano u rod okoteja (Ocotea).
Licaria é um género botânico pertencente à família Lauraceae[1].
