Caryodaphnopsis

Caryodaphnopsis is a genus of 16 species^[1] belonging to the flowering plant family Lauraceae, distributed in tropical areas in southern North America, northern South America, and East and Southeast Asia.

Caryodaphnopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Magnoliids
Order:	Laurales
Family:	Lauraceae
Genus:	Caryodaphnopsis Airy Shaw
Species
See text.

They vary from 50-m-high trees to small trees or shrubs in lowland evergreen forest and rainforest.

The genus is distributed across the Pacific, with a marked geographical disjunction between Southeast Asia (South China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) and tropical America (Costa Rica^[2] to Brazil, crossing Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela).

Taxonomic history

Caryodaphnopsis burgeri leaves

Until 1985, the genus was only reported for tropical Asia, but van der Werff and Richter transferred two South American species of the genus Persea to Caryodaphnopsis.^[3]

Species

Species include:^[4]

• Caryodaphnopsis baviensis (Lecomte) Airy Shaw
• Caryodaphnopsis bilocellata van der Werff & Dao
• Caryodaphnopsis burgeri N.Zamora & Poveda
• Caryodaphnopsis cogolloi van der Werff
• Caryodaphnopsis fieldii Aymard [es] & G.A.Romero
• Caryodaphnopsis fosteri van der Werff
• Caryodaphnopsis henryi Airy Shaw
• Caryodaphnopsis inaequalis (A.C.Sm.) van der Werff & H.G.Richt.
• Caryodaphnopsis laotica Airy Shaw
• Caryodaphnopsis latifolia W.T.Wang
• Caryodaphnopsis metallica Kosterm.
• Caryodaphnopsis poilanei Kosterm.
• Caryodaphnopsis theobromifolia (A.H.Gentry) van der Werff & H.G. Richt.
• Caryodaphnopsis tomentosa van der Werff
• Caryodaphnopsis tonkinensis (Lecomte) Airy Shaw