Lindera Thunb.

Spicebush (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Laurales > Lauraceae

Characteristics

Evergreen or deciduous trees or shrubs, aromatic, dioecious. Leaves alternate, entire on margins or 3-lobed, pinninerved, trinerved, or triplinerved. Umbels singular and axillary, or 2 to numerous tufted on abbreviated and axillary branch, pedunculate or not; involucral bracts 4, decussate. Flowers unisexual, yellow or greenish yellow. Tepals 6, sometimes 7-9, equal in size or outer whorl slightly larger, usually deciduous. Male flowers with 9 fertile stamens, sometimes 12, stamens usually arranged into 3 whorls; anthers 2-celled, introrse, with 2 stipitate glands at filament base; reduced pistil small, sometimes style and stigma joined in a small mucro. Female flowers: staminodes usually 9, sometimes 12 or 15, fasciated, with 2 flat sessile reniform glands, on both sides of staminodes; ovary globose or ellipsoid. Berry or drupe, globose or ellipsoid, green when young and red or purple at maturity, with 1 seed; perianth tubes inflated into a hypocarpium at base of fruit or cup-shaped and enclosed from base to middle of fruit.
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Shrubs or small trees , deciduous. Bark grayish, becoming darker with age. Leaves alternate, aromatic when crushed (at least when young). Leaf blade pinnately veined, membranous to nearly leathery; surfaces glabrous to densely pubescent; domatia absent. Inflorescences appearing before leaves, axillary, clusters (pseudoumbels), clusters subsessile, nearly umbellate, each subtended by 2 pairs of decussate bracts. Flowers unisexual, staminate and pistillate on different plants, a few bisexual flowers on some plants; tepals deciduous, yellow, pellucid-dotted, equal, glabrous. Staminate flowers: stamens 9; anthers 2-locular, 2-valved, introrse. Pistillate flowers: staminodes variously developed; ovary globose. Drupe bright red, ellipsoid to nearly globose, borne on pedicel, with or without persistent tepals at base. x = 12.
Dioecious trees. Twigs shortly pubescent when young. Leaves spirally arranged, petiolate; lamina penniveined. Inflorescence umbellate, axillary, enclosed in hemispherical decussate bracts before anthesis. Flowers ?3-merous. Male flowers: perianth tube and tepals absent; anthers introrse, 2-locular; staminodes absent; staminal glands peltate. Female flowers: perianth tube and tepals absent; staminodes differentiated; staminal glands peltate; ovary sessile; stigma thallose. Fruit seated on a slightly swollen receptacle; mesocarp fleshy; endocarp thin. Seed: testa thin; radicle almost apical; cotyledons distinct, uniform in texture.
Mostly dioecious; tep 6, deciduous; stamens 9, the 3 inner each with a pair of basilateral glands; anthers introrse, 2-locular; pedicels short, slender to maturity; trees or shrubs. 100, mainly Asian.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Images

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Distribution

Lindera world distribution map, present in Australia, China, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331723-2
WFO ID wfo-4000021836
COL ID 62Z2Q
BDTFX ID 99634
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Lindera Polyadenia Aperula Calosmon Daphnidium Ozanthes Sinosassafras

Lower taxons

Lindera wrayi Lindera cercidifolia Lindera apoensis Lindera delicata Lindera aggregata Lindera queenslandica Lindera pentantha Lindera pipericarpa Lindera polyantha Lindera lucida Lindera caesia Lindera macrophylla Lindera malaccensis Lindera melastomacea Lindera wardii Lindera turfosa Lindera racemiflora Lindera racemosa Lindera pilosa Lindera pedicellata Lindera rufa Lindera montana Lindera sanjappae Lindera varmae Lindera communis Lindera fragrans Lindera umbellata Lindera akoensis Lindera bifaria Lindera prattii Lindera rubronervia Lindera setchuenensis Lindera assamica Lindera neesiana Lindera chienii Lindera chunii Lindera myrrha Lindera velutina Lindera subcoriacea Lindera motuoensis Lindera guangxiensis Lindera chengii Lindera glauca Lindera latifolia Lindera laureola Lindera megaphylla Lindera reflexa Lindera sinensis Lindera melissifolia Lindera obtusiloba Lindera praecox Lindera sericea Lindera triloba Lindera erythrocarpa Lindera supracostata Lindera tonkinensis Lindera kariensis Lindera limprichtii Lindera angustifolia Lindera nacusua Lindera doniana Lindera kwangtungensis Lindera longipedunculata Lindera metcalfiana Lindera thomsonii Lindera gracilipes Lindera robusta Lindera foveolata Lindera menghaiensis Lindera bifaria Lindera tienchuanensis Lindera lungshengensis Lindera pulcherrima Lindera floribunda Lindera villipes Lindera caudata Lindera reticulata Lindera bokorensis Lindera andamanica Lindera salicifolia Lindera citriodora Lindera flavinervia Lindera cuspidata Lindera bibracteata Lindera concinna Lindera annamensis Lindera balansae Lindera insignis Lindera kinabaluensis Lindera montanoides Lindera novoguineensis Lindera benzoin