Dryadodaphne

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Dryadodaphne

Description

Tall trees, young branches ± tetragenous usually glabrous. Leaves dentate or almost entire. Inflorescence axillary, of dichasia or few-flowered pleiochasia, bracteoles broad enclosing the flowerbud, early caducous. Flowers bisexual, perianth and androecium on the rim of the hypanthium; Fruiting hypanthium cylindrical-ellipsoid, dehiscing into 4 (sometimes 2) equal valves.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Australasia: Queensland (Queensland present)
Three species, Queensland (1 sp.), in Malesia: New Guinea (2 spp.).

Notes

Dryadodaphne is the only representative of the Atherospermatoideae in Malesia. The New Guinea material was originally confused with Daphnandra, and any reports of that genus from Malesia refer to Dryadodaphne.

Citation

PER-KINS 1925: Übersicht Gattungen Monim.: 47
A.C. SMITH 1942 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 442
HUTCH. 1964 – In: Gen. Fl. Pl.: 114