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|accepted_name=Licaria
|accepted_authority=Aublet
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hist. Pl. Guiane
|place=1: 313. 1775
|year=1775
}}
|common_names=Licari
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Acrodiclidium
|authority=Nees & C. Martius
|rank=genus
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|name=Chanekia
|authority=Lundell
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Misanteca
|authority=Schlechtendal & Chamisso
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Lauraceae;Licaria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lauraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Licaria]]</div></div>
|etymology=local name in French Guiana
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism growth form;whole_organism duration;whole_organism growth form"><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, evergreen.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="bark coloration;bark architecture or pubescence or relief;lenticel size;lenticel shape"><b>Bark </b>gray [pinkish, purplish, or maroon-brown], smooth with small, wartlike lenticels.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>alternate [rarely opposite or clustered at tips of branches].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf-blade architecture;leaf-blade texture;leaf-blade texture"><b>Leaf-</b>blade pinnately veined, papery or leathery;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="surface pubescence;surface pubescence">surfaces glabrous or variously pubescent;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="domatium presence">domatia absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="inflorescence presence;inflorescence position;leaf life cycle"><b>Inflorescences </b>appearing when mature leaves present, axillary, panicles (rarely heads).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="flower reproduction"><b>Flowers </b>bisexual;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="tepal duration;tepal coloration;tepal coloration;tepal variability;tepal orientation;tepal pubescence">tepals deciduous, white or green, equal (rarely unequal), at anthesis mostly erect, glabrous (or pubescent);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="stamen quantity;anther architecture or structure in adjective form;anther arrangement or dehiscence;anther position">stamens 3, anthers 2-locular, 2-valvate, apical (or introrse);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="staminode quantity;staminode quantity;staminode quantity;staminode presence">staminodes 9, 6, 3, or 0;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="ovary position;floral-tube depth">ovary superior, enclosed by deep floral-tube.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="drupe coloration;drupe coloration;drupe shape;drupe location;cupule depth;cupule relief"><b>Drupe </b>red or purple, ellipsoid, seated in deep, usually double-rimmed cupule.</span><!--

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|distribution=Restricted to neotropics
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 40 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Licaria
|author=Henk van der Werff
|authority=Aublet
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Acrodiclidium;Chanekia;Misanteca
|basionyms=
|family=Lauraceae
|distribution=Restricted to neotropics
|reference=None
|publication title=Hist. Pl. Guiane
|publication year=1775
|special status=
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|genus=Licaria
|anther architecture or structure in adjective form=2-locular
|anther arrangement or dehiscence=2-valvate
|anther position=apical
|bark architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|bark coloration=gray
|cupule depth=deep
|cupule relief=double-rimmed
|domatium presence=absent
|drupe coloration=purple;red
|drupe location=seated
|drupe shape=ellipsoid
|floral-tube depth=deep
|flower reproduction=bisexual
|inflorescence position=axillary
|inflorescence presence=absent
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|leaf life cycle=mature
|leaf-blade architecture=veined
|leaf-blade texture=leathery;papery
|lenticel shape=wartlike
|lenticel size=small
|ovary position=superior
|stamen quantity=3
|staminode presence=absent
|staminode quantity=3;6;9
|surface pubescence=pubescent;glabrous
|tepal coloration=green;white
|tepal duration=deciduous
|tepal orientation=erect
|tepal pubescence=glabrous
|tepal variability=equal
|whole_organism duration=evergreen;evergreen
|whole_organism growth form=tree;shrub
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