Caryodaphnopsis is a genus of 23 species belonging to the flowering plant family Lauraceae, distributed in tropical areas in southern North America, northern South America, and East and Southeast Asia.
They vary from 50 m high trees to small trees or shrubs in lowland evergreen forest and rainforest.
The genus is distributed across the Pacific, with a marked geographical disjunction between Southeast Asia (South China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) and tropical America (Costa Rica to Brazil, crossing Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela).
Taxonomic history
Until 1985, the genus was only reported for tropical Asia, but van der Werff and Richter transferred two South American species of the genus Persea to Caryodaphnopsis.
Species , Plants of the World Online accepts the following 23 species: Caryodaphnopsis baviensis Caryodaphnopsis bilocellata Caryodaphnopsis burgeri Caryodaphnopsis cangyuanensis Caryodaphnopsis carmensis Caryodaphnopsis cogolloi Caryodaphnopsis fieldii Caryodaphnopsis fosteri Caryodaphnopsis hekouensis Caryodaphnopsis henryi Caryodaphnopsis inaequalis Caryodaphnopsis laotica Caryodaphnopsis latifolia Caryodaphnopsis malipoensis Caryodaphnopsis metallica Caryodaphnopsis parviflora Caryodaphnopsis poilanei Caryodaphnopsis quanbaensis Caryodaphnopsis rubrinervis Caryodaphnopsis theobromifolia Caryodaphnopsis tomentosa Caryodaphnopsis tonkinensis Caryodaphnopsis yariguiensis
References
External links