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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Licaria triandra.jpg
| image_caption = ''Licaria triandra''
| taxon = Licaria
| authority = [[Aubl.]]
| subdivision = See text
| synonyms_ref = <ref name="POWO"/>
| synonyms =
* ''Acrodiclidium'' <small>[[Nees]] & [[Mart.]]</small>
* ''Chanekia'' <small>[[Cyrus Longworth Lundell|Lundell]]</small>
* ''Evonymodaphne'' <small>Nees</small>
* ''Gamanthera'' <small>{{ill|Henk van der Werff|nl|lt=van der Werff}}</small>
* ''Misanteca'' <small>[[Schltdl.]] & [[Cham.]]</small>
* ''Nobeliodendron'' <small>[[O.C.Schmidt]]</small>
* ''Symphysodaphne'' <small>A.Rich.</small>
* ''Triplomeia'' <small>Raf.</small>
}}
'''''Licaria''''' is a [[flowering plant]] [[genus]] in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Lauraceae]], native to Central America and South America. It is a Neotropical genus with around 80 species.
==Overview==
''Licaria'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of about 80 species distributed from southern Florida, Mexico to the south of Brazil and Bolivia. In Brazil, the occurrence of 20 species and two subspecies, mostly in the Amazon region (Kurz 2000). These [[tree]]s have a resilient wood, useful as [[timber]], for construction and as [[firewood]].
== Description ==
They are evergreen monoecious, [[hermaphrodite]], [[tree]]s or rarely [[shrub|bushes]]. Leaves lax at the apex of the branches, without papillae on the abaxial epidermis of the leaves. The leaves are alternate or opposite but rarely opposite, entire, subcoriaceous in some species of Central America as Nicaragua, glabrous on the upper, glabrous or pubescent on the underside, pinnatinervium. Flowers in panicles terminating in a top. The [[inflorescence]]s in axillary, [[paniculata]] so capitated, the [[tepal]]s generally the same, with three stamens, the anthers exserted or included at anthesis, filaments free or fused.
Flowers monoclinic with hypanthium urceolate, not depressed below the tepals, tepals 6, generally erect, equal inner surface without papillae. Androecium with three stamens fertile, filaments generally the same width as anthers or more slender, anthers bilocelares: 1st and 2nd series with stamens absent or transformed into staminodes; third grade with 3 stamens, a pair of glands at the base of fiaments present, reduced, never fused, or absent, anthers introrse or extrorse-apical; estaminodial fourth grade absent or rarely present with 3 staminodes. The [[fruit]] is a [[berry (botany)|berry]] with deciduous tepals.
==Species==
Species accepted by the [[Plants of the World Online]] as of 2022:<ref name=POWO/>
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*''[[Licaria agglomerata]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria alata]]'' {{small|Miranda}}
*''[[Licaria applanata]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria areolata]]'' {{small|Lundell}}
*''[[Licaria armeniaca]]'' {{small|(Nees) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria aurea]]'' {{small|(Huber) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria aureosericea]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria bahiana]]'' {{small|H.W.Kurz}}
*''[[Licaria brasiliensis]]'' {{small|(Nees) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria brenesii]]'' {{small|W.C.Burger}}
*''[[Licaria brittoniana]]'' {{small|C.K.Allen & L.E.Greg.}}
*''[[Licaria camara]]'' {{small|(R.H.Schomb.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria campechiana]]'' {{small|(Standl.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria cannella]]'' {{small|(Meisn.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria capitata]]'' {{small|(Cham. & Schltdl.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria caribaea]]'' {{small|Gómez-Laur. & Cascante}}
*''[[Licaria carinata]]'' {{small|H.W.Kurz}}
*''[[Licaria caryophyllata]]'' {{small|Ducke}}
*''[[Licaria caudata]]'' {{small|(Lundell) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria cervantesii]]'' {{small|(Kunth) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria chinanteca]]'' {{small|Lorea-Hern.}}
*''[[Licaria chrysophylla]]'' {{small|(Meisn.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria clarensis]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria clavata]]'' {{small|Lundell}}
*''[[Licaria cogolloi]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria colombiana]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria comata]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria conoidea]]'' {{small|Lundell}}
*''[[Licaria crassifolia]]'' {{small|(Poir.) P.L.R.Moraes}}
*''[[Licaria cubensis]]'' {{small|(O.C.Schmidt) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria cufodontisii]]'' {{small|Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria debilis]]'' {{small|(Mez) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria deltoidea]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria dolichantha]]'' {{small|H.W.Kurz}}
*''[[Licaria endlicheriifolia]]'' {{small|(Kosterm.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria excelsa]]'' {{small|Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria exserta]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria filiformis]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria glaberrima]]'' {{small|(Lundell) C.K.Allen}}
*''[[Licaria guatemalensis]]'' {{small|Lundell}}
*''[[Licaria guianensis]]'' {{small|Aubl.}}
*''[[Licaria herrerae]]'' {{small|(van der Werff) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria hirsuta]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria ibarrae]]'' {{small|(Lundell) Lundell}}
*''[[Licaria latifolia]]'' {{small|(A.C.Sm.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria leonis]]'' {{small|Gómez-Laur. & A.Estrada}}
*''[[Licaria lucida]]'' {{small|(Lundell) C.K.Allen}}
*''[[Licaria macrophylla]]'' {{small|(A.C.Sm.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria martiniana]]'' {{small|(Mez) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria mexicana]]'' {{small|(Brandegee) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria misantlae]]'' {{small|(Brandegee) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria multiflora]]'' {{small|(Kosterm.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria multinervis]]'' {{small|H.W.Kurz}}
*''[[Licaria mutisii]]'' {{small|(Kosterm.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria nayaritensis]]'' {{small|(Lundell) Lundell}}
*''[[Licaria nitida]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria oppositifolia]]'' {{small|(Nees) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria pachycarpa]]'' {{small|(Meisn.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria parvifolia]]'' {{small|(Lam.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria peckii]]'' {{small|(I.M.Johnst.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria pergamentacea]]'' {{small|W.C.Burger}}
*''[[Licaria phymatosa]]'' {{small|Lorea-Hern.}}
*''[[Licaria polyphylla]]'' {{small|(Nees) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria pucheri]]'' {{small|(Ruiz & Pav.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria quercina]]'' {{small|Lorea-Hern.}}
*''[[Licaria quirirafuina]]'' {{small|Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria rodriguesii]]'' {{small|H.W.Kurz}}
*''[[Licaria rufotomentosa]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria sarapiquensis]]'' {{small|Hammel}}
*''[[Licaria sclerophylla]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria sericea]]'' {{small|(Griseb.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria sessiliflora]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria siphonantha]]'' {{small|Lorea-Hern.}}
*''[[Licaria spiritusanctensis]]'' {{small|P.L.R.Moraes & T.D.M.Barbosa}}
*''[[Licaria subbullata]]'' {{small|Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria subsessilis]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria tenuifolia]]'' {{small|Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria terminalis]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria tomentosa]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria triandra]]'' {{small|(Sw.) Kosterm.}}
*''[[Licaria trinervis]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria urceolata]]'' {{small|Lundell}}
*''[[Licaria velutina]]'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[[Licaria vernicosa]]'' {{small|(Mez) Kosterm.}}
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==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=POWO>{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21439-1 |title=''Licaria'' Aubl. |date=2022 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|access-date=26 October 2022}}</ref>
}}
H. Kurz. Fortpflanzungsbiologie einiger Gattungen neotropischer Lauraceen und Revision der Gattung Licaria. Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde des Fachbereichs Biologie. Universität Hamburg, Hamburg. 1983.
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[[Category:Lauraceae genera]]
[[Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot]]
[[Category:Neotropical realm flora]]
[[Category:Lauraceae]]
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