Urbanodendron

Urbanodendron
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Laurales
Family: Lauraceae
Genus: Urbanodendron
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Urbanodendron is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae. The three species are native to Brazil.

Little information is available about the genus because the species are rare and endangered.

These are evergreen monoecious trees with alternately arranged leaves. The flowers have six tepals and nine stamens.[1]

These are endemic species of the Brazilian tropical seasonal semi-deciduous montane forests, the cloud forest. In 1978, after five centuries of occupation and the effects of various economic cycles, the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, has been reduced to about only 7.6% of its original extension, in a drastic deforestation.[2]

Species

There are three species:[1]


References

  1. 1 2 (in Portuguese) Quinet, A. Sinopse taxonômica da família Lauraceae no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Acta bot. bras 19.3 (2005): 563-572.
  2. Christo, A. G., et al. (2009). Structure of the shrub-arboreal component of an Atlantic forest fragment on a hillock in the central lowland of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Interciencia: Revista de ciencia y tecnología de América, 34(4), 232-239.


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