Aiouea
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Authority
Kubitzki, K. & Renner, Susanne S. 1982. Lauraceae I (Aniba and Aiouea). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 31: 1-125. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Lauraceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type species. Aiouea guianensis Aublet.
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Synonyms
Ehrhardia Scop., Colomandra Neck., Douglassia Schreb.
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Description
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Genus Description - Trees, rarely shrubs or climbers, sometimes with xylopodium. Leaves alternate, evenly distributed along branchlets, evergreen, rarely deciduous, penninerved or sometimes triplinerved, glabrous above, glabrous beneath, rarely pubescent. Domatia sometimes present. Inflorescences paniculate, evenly distributed along branchlets, rarely congested, in axils of foliage leaves. Flowers hermaphrodite, 1-3.5 mm long, pedicellate, their bracts caducous; floral tube longer than or rarely as long as perianth, obconical, cylindrical or campanulate; tepals 6, erect, equal, tube and tepal base pilose within; stamens usually 12, two-celled, mostly included, the innermost whorl rarely irregularly developed, whorl I with cells, whorl II and III with or without cells, cells introrse, latrorse or extrorse; filaments narrower than anthers; valves of anther cells opening upwards, elliptic; connective ± protruding beyond cells; stamens of whorl III provided with two large sessile glands; staminodes IV stipitiform, triangular or clavate; ovary ovoid or globose, glabrous included in floral tube; style cylindrical or enlarged towards stigma; stigma discoid, as big or bigger than cross-section of style. Berry 1-2 cm long, ellipsoid, base sometimes included for a few mm in woody cupule; fruiting pedicel enlarged, merging into cupule, woody.