Nectandra coriacea
Fl. Brit. W. I., 281. 1860.
Common names: Lancewood
Illustrated
Basionym: Laurus coriacea Swartz Prodr., 65. 1788
Synonyms: Laurus catesbyana Michaux Nectandra catesbyana (Michaux) Sargent Ocotea catesbyana (Michaux) Sargent Ocotea coriacea (Swartz) Britton
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 3.
Trees, to 10 m. Branches dense; terminal bud not covered by imbricate bracts. Leaf-blade narrowly elliptic, 7-12 × 2-4 cm, base and apex acute; surfaces glabrous; domatia absent. Inflorescences to 8 cm, nearly glabrous or sparsely pilose. Flowers: tepals white, rotate; ovary superior, glabrous. Drupe ± ellipsoid, to 18 mm, seated in shallow, bowl-shaped cupule to 7 mm diam.
Phenology: Flowering late winter–spring (Mar–Jun).
Habitat: In woods
Elevation: 0-100 m
Distribution
Fla., Mexico (Yucatan), West Indies, Central America (Caribbean coasts of Belize), Central America (Guatemala), Central America (and Honduras)
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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acute +
dark reddish-brown +
acute +
imbricate +
deciduous +
dense +
Lancewood +
shallow +
single-rimmed +
bowl--shaped +
compound +
absent +
black;dark blue +
seated +
ellipsoid +
absent +
accrescent +
reddish;usually yellow;greenish or white +
bisexual +
papillose +
developed +
perigynous +
Present +
axillary +
absent +
veined +
elliptic +
unlobed +
2cm;4cm +
alternate +
mature +
wartlike +
small +
arranged +
basal +
superior +
glabrous +
many-flowered +
1-carpellate +
compound +
Fl. Brit. W. I., +
1860 +
cup-shaped +
Illustrated +
introrse +
extrorse +
absent +
absent +
small +
staminodial +
subsessile +
glabrous +
Nectandra coriacea +
Nectandra +
species +
sepaloid +
white +
deciduous +
spreading +
outer +
rotate +
equal +
tall +
evergreen +
aromatic +