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Cinnamomum

Schaeff. (1760)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Magnoliids Order: Laurales Family: Lauraceae Genus: Cinnamomum

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees or shrubs, often with aromatic bark and leaves.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Usually opposite. Margins entire. Usually tripliveined. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in paniculate inflorescences. Flowers usually bisexual (perfect), usually aromatic, small, actinomorphic. Tepals 6, usually equal, basal part of or entire Tepals usually persisting on rim of cupule, usually arranged in whorls of 3, usually white, greenish white, or yellow, rarely reddish. Fertile stamens 9, outer 6 introrse, inner 3 extrorse and with basal glands, staminodia present; anthers tetrathecal. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule 1, anatropous; stigma capitate to disciform or lobed, occasionally decurrent on style.

Fruit: Berry-like; subglobose; usually subtended by persistent tepals and/or a cupule (i.e. enlarged floral tube); which can be shallow or completely envelop the fruit; rarely fruit seated on a naked pedicel. Seeds without endosperm.

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Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

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Natural History

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Bot. Exped.: 74 (1760)

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