WorldFloraDB - Endiandra

Characteristics

Trees, rarely shrubs. Twigs ± sericeous to villous to almost glabrescent. Leaves spirally arranged, petiolate; lamina penniveined, rarely tripliveined. Inflorescence usually paniculate, pseudoterminal and/or axillary, rarely racemose or cymose and axillary, not enclosed in hemispherical decussate bracts before anthesis. Flowers bisexual, usually 3-merous (2-merous in Endiandra xanthocarpa ). Tepals 3 + 3, (rarely 2 + 2). Stamens usually 3 (occasionally 2–6); anthers extrorse (rarely ± introrse), usually 2-locular (E. monothyra unilocular); glands usually 6 per flower, occasionally absent, sometimes fused to form disc. Staminodes usually 3, sometimes fewer or absent. Ovary ± sessile; style usually short. Fruit to 100 mm diam.; pedicel not swollen; mesocarp and exocarp usually fleshy. Seed: radicle usually apical, sometimes basal, central or lateral; cotyledons usually distinct, uniform in texture.

Trees. Buds small, scaly. Leaves alternate, pinninerved, veins and veinlets always foveolate. Panicle axillary, inserted on base of branchlet, pedunculate, many flowered or almost reduced to a cyme. Flowers bisexual, minute. Perianth tube very short to nearly absent or campanulate; perianth lobes 6, subequal or outer 3 somewhat larger. Fertile stamens 3, of 3rd whorl, anthers slightly thickened, stalkless, 2-celled on middle part or below apex, cells extrorse; stamens of 1st and 2nd whorls absent or 6 undeveloped and reduced to glands, sometimes glands united into a fleshy ring. Staminodes of innermost whorl, absent or rarely 3. Ovary sessile; style short; stigma small. Fruit oblong, cylindric, or ovoid; fruit stalk not or nearly not dilated; perianth wholly deciduous, or slightly discoid, or nearly persistent and not deformed.

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Environment

The species are usually found in rainforest, gallery or littoral forests, although Endiandra discolor and E. sieberi have developed mechanisms (E. discolor —lignotubers; E. sieberi —a very thick corky bark) to cope with periodic fires in ecotonal areas.

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Usage

The genus is of significant economic importance, including 16 species that produce millable logs of generally fine grade timbers (referred to as 'walnut'). A further 11 species also produce millable logs although they are not commonly utilised. Domin observed aborigines eating the fruit of Endiandra anthropophagorum (hence the specific epithet from the Greek anthropos (man) and phago (to eat)).

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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21401-1
WFO ID	wfo-4000013386
COL ID	4BLB
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	672600
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)	Link

Synonyms

Endiandra

Lower taxons

Endiandra clavigera Endiandra aggregata Endiandra albiramea Endiandra aneityensis Endiandra anthropophagorum Endiandra bullata Endiandra carrii Endiandra clemensii Endiandra collinsii Endiandra compressa Endiandra cooperana Endiandra coriacea Endiandra cowleyana Endiandra crassiflora Endiandra cuneata Endiandra dichrophylla Endiandra eusideroxylocarpa Endiandra faceta Endiandra ferruginea Endiandra firma Endiandra flavinervis Endiandra floydii Endiandra forbesii Endiandra formicaria Endiandra immersa Endiandra impressicosta Endiandra insignis Endiandra introrsa Endiandra invasiorum Endiandra longipedicellata Endiandra oblonga Endiandra rhizophoretum Endiandra rigidior Endiandra rubescens Endiandra sankeyana Endiandra schlechteri Endiandra scrobiculata Endiandra virens Endiandra acuminata Endiandra archboldiana Endiandra arfakensis Endiandra baillonii Endiandra beccariana Endiandra bellendenkerana Endiandra bessaphila Endiandra brassii Endiandra cyphellophora Endiandra dielsiana Endiandra discolor Endiandra djamuensis Endiandra dolichocarpa Endiandra elaeocarpa Endiandra elongata Endiandra engleriana Endiandra euadenia Endiandra fulva Endiandra gem Endiandra gemopsis Endiandra gillespiei Endiandra glauca Endiandra globosa Endiandra grandifolia Endiandra hainanensis Endiandra havelii Endiandra hayesii Endiandra holttumii Endiandra hypotephra Endiandra jonesii Endiandra kingiana Endiandra latifolia Endiandra laxiflora Endiandra lecardii Endiandra ledermannii Endiandra leptodendron Endiandra limnophila Endiandra luteola Endiandra macrophylla Endiandra macrostemon Endiandra magnilimba Endiandra maingayi Endiandra microneura Endiandra microphylla Endiandra minutiflora Endiandra montana Endiandra monticola Endiandra muelleri Endiandra multiflora Endiandra neocaledonica Endiandra ochracea Endiandra oviformis Endiandra palmerstonii Endiandra phaeocarpa Endiandra pilosa Endiandra polyneura Endiandra praeclara Endiandra pubens Endiandra recurva Endiandra sericea Endiandra sideroxylon Endiandra sieberi Endiandra sleumeri Endiandra solomonensis Endiandra spathulata Endiandra sphaerica Endiandra sulavesiana Endiandra teschneriana Endiandra trichotosa Endiandra tryphera Endiandra versteeghii Endiandra whitmorei Endiandra wrayi Endiandra xanthocarpa Endiandra xylophylla Endiandra asymmetrica Endiandra merrillii Endiandra javanica Endiandra areolata Endiandra asymmerrica Endiandra chartacea Endiandra wolfei Endiandra grayi Endiandra monothyra Endiandra papuana Endiandra poueboensis Endiandra reticulata Endiandra sebertii

Endiandra R.Br.

Genus

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae