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Cinnamomum burmanni

(Nees & T.Nees) Blume (1826)

This name is accepted

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

cinnamon, korintji cassia, padang cassia

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees.

Stems: Young branches terete (cylindrical), glabrous.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, often opposite at tips of young branches. Blades narrowly ovate to ovate, ca. 10 cm long, 3–4 cm wide. Apex gradually acute. Surfaces glabrous, glossy green; hairs, when present, simple; blades usually leathery, usually with aromatic oil or mucilage cells. Margins entire. Tripliveined. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers strigose, in short, paniculate inflorescences. Flowers usually bisexual (perfect), usually aromatic, small, actinomorphic. Tepals 6, equal, ca. 4 mm long, strigose, 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, cordate; anthers tetrathecal. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovule 1, anatropous.

Fruit: Berries ellipsoid;; subtended by a small cupule that has the basal; truncate parts of tepals attached to the rim. Seeds without endosperm.

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Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Kaua'i Naturalized
O'ahu Naturalized
Lana'i Naturalized
Maui Naturalized
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents

Birds
Forestry

Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 569 (1826)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:846 (O [as C. burmannii]); Wagner & Herbst 1995:22 (EM); Wagner et al. 1997:57 (H); Meidell et al. 1997:18 (WM); Wagner et al. 2003:32 (spelling change to burmanni); Starr et al. 2004:23 (K); Staples & Herbst 2005:366 (DESCR); Oppenheimer 2007:25 (L)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Cinnamomum burmanni Punahou School, Honolulu, HI, US Mesic forest UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Oahu HAPI 2/11/1997
2 Cinnamomum burmanni Island of Maui, Makawao District, Makawao Forest Reserve east of (and above) Kahakapao Gulch, use waiohiwi Rd. off Piiholo Rd from Makawao Town Cultivated UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Maui HAPI 7/5/1997
3 Cinnamomum burmanni East Maui, Makawao Forest Reserve Cultivated UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Maui HAPI 6/20/1997
4 Cinnamomum burmanni Punahou School, Honolulu, HI, US Mesic forest UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Oahu HAPI 2/11/1997
5 Cinnamomum burmanni Island of Maui, Makawao District, Makawao Forest Reserve east of (and above) Kahakapao Gulch, use waiohiwi Rd. off Piiholo Rd from Makawao Town Cultivated UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Maui HAPI 7/5/1997
6 Cinnamomum burmanni East Maui, Makawao Forest Reserve Cultivated UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Maui HAPI 6/20/1997
7 Cinnamomum burmanni Punahou School, Honolulu, HI, US Mesic forest UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Oahu HAPI 2/11/1997
8 Cinnamomum burmanni Island of Maui, Makawao District, Makawao Forest Reserve east of (and above) Kahakapao Gulch, use waiohiwi Rd. off Piiholo Rd from Makawao Town Cultivated UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Maui HAPI 7/5/1997
9 Cinnamomum burmanni East Maui, Makawao Forest Reserve Cultivated UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Maui HAPI 6/20/1997
10 Cinnamomum burmanni Punahou School, Honolulu, HI, US Mesic forest UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Oahu HAPI 2/11/1997
11 Cinnamomum burmanni Island of Maui, Makawao District, Makawao Forest Reserve east of (and above) Kahakapao Gulch, use waiohiwi Rd. off Piiholo Rd from Makawao Town Cultivated UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Maui HAPI 7/5/1997
12 Cinnamomum burmanni East Maui, Makawao Forest Reserve Cultivated UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Maui HAPI 6/20/1997
13 Cinnamomum burmanni Punahou School, Honolulu, HI, US Mesic forest UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Oahu HAPI 2/11/1997
14 Cinnamomum burmanni Island of Maui, Makawao District, Makawao Forest Reserve east of (and above) Kahakapao Gulch, use waiohiwi Rd. off Piiholo Rd from Makawao Town Cultivated UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Maui HAPI 7/5/1997
15 Cinnamomum burmanni East Maui, Makawao Forest Reserve Cultivated UNKNOWN C. R. Annable Maui HAPI 6/20/1997
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