Actinodaphne Last updated July 13, 2025 Genus of flowering plants
Actinodaphne lancifolia Actinodaphne genus of flowering plants in the laurel family (Lauraceae ). It contains approximately 125 species [ 1] of dioecious evergreen trees and shrubs. [ 2]
Species range across tropical and subtropical regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia, southern China, Japan, New Guinea, Queensland, Solomon Islands, and Fiji. [ 1] There are 17 Chinese species, 13 of which are endemic. [ 2]
Description The trees are 3 to 25 m tall, with leaves usually clustered or nearly verticillate, rarely alternate or opposite, unlobed, pinninerved, and rarely triplinerved. The flowers are star-shaped, small, and greenish. The flowers are clustered or whorled and are unisexual. [ 2] Umbels are solitary or clustered or arranged in a panicle or raceme; involucral bracts are imbricated and caducous. The perianth tube is short; perianth segments usually number six in two whorls of three each, nearly equal, and rarely persistent. The male flowers have fertile stamens usually 9 in three whorls of three each; filaments of the first and second whorls are eglandular, and of the third whorl are biglandular at the base; anthers are all introrse and four-celled; cells opening by lids; the rudimentary pistil is small or lacking. The female flowers has staminodes as many as stamens of male flowers; the ovary is superior; the stigma is shield-shaped or dilated. The fruit is a berry-like drupe seated on shallow or deep, cup-shaped or discoid, perianth tube. It has a small single seed dispersed mostly by birds.
Ecology Actinodaphne species require continuously moist soil, and do not tolerate drought and frost.[ citation needed ] 1,500–3,300 m (4,900–10,800 ft) .
Species 125 species of Actinodaphne are accepted. They include: [ 1]
Actinodaphne acuminata (Blume) Meisn. – central and southern Japan, Ryukyu Islands, and Taiwan Actinodaphne albifrons Kosterm. – Sri Lanka Actinodaphne amabilis Kosterm. – Thailand Actinodaphne ambigua Hook.f. – Sri Lanka Actinodaphne andamanica M.Gangop. – Andaman Islands Actinodaphne angustifolia (Blume) Nees – Nepal to Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi Actinodaphne apoensis (Elmer) Kosterm. ex Brambach & Pelser – Philippines (Mindanao). Actinodaphne archboldiana C.K.Allen – New Guinea Actinodaphne areolata Blume – Java Actinodaphne bicolor (Merr.) Merr. – Philippines Actinodaphne borneensis Meisn. – Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo Actinodaphne bourdillonii Gamble – southern India Actinodaphne bourneae Gamble – southern India Actinodaphne brassii C.K.Allen – Solomon Islands Actinodaphne caesia Teschner – New Guinea Actinodaphne campanulata Hook.f. – southern India Actinodaphne candolleana (Thwaites) Meisn. – Sri Lanka Actinodaphne celebica Miq. – Sulawesi Actinodaphne cinerea Elmer – Philippines (Palawan) Actinodaphne concinna Ridl. – Peninsular Malaysia Actinodaphne concolor Nees – Myanmar Actinodaphne corymbosa Blume – Sumatra Actinodaphne crassa Hand.-Mazz. – China (Hunan) Actinodaphne cupularis (Hemsl.) Gamble – southern China to Thailand Actinodaphne diversifolia Merr. – Borneo Actinodaphne dolichophylla (Merr.) Merr. – southern Philippines Actinodaphne elegans Thwaites – Sri Lanka Actinodaphne ellipticibacca Kosterm. – northern Vietnam Actinodaphne engleriana Teschner – New Guinea Actinodaphne ferruginea H.Liu – southern Vietnam Actinodaphne forrestii (C.K.Allen) Kosterm. – southern China (Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou) and Vietnam Actinodaphne fragilis Gamble – Peninsular Malaysia Actinodaphne fuliginosa Airy Shaw – Borneo Actinodaphne furfuracea Blume – Borneo Actinodaphne glabra Blume – Borneo and Java Actinodaphne glauca Nees – Sri Lanka Actinodaphne glaucina C.K.Allen – Hainan Actinodaphne glomerata (Blume) Nees – Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, and Sulawesi Actinodaphne gracilis Miq. – Sumatra Actinodaphne henryi Gamble – China (southern Yunnan) to northern Indochina Actinodaphne hirsuta Blume – Java Actinodaphne hypoleucophylla Hayata – southern China and central Taiwan Actinodaphne intermedia (Elmer) Kosterm. ex Brambach & Pelser – Philippines Actinodaphne javanica Miq. – Java Actinodaphne johorensis Gamble – Peninsular Malaysia Actinodaphne junghuhnii Stur – Sumatra Actinodaphne kinabaluensis Kosterm. – Borneo Actinodaphne koshepangii Chun ex Hung T.Chang – China (northwestern Guangdong and western Hunan) Actinodaphne kostermansii S.Julia – Borneo (Sabah and Brunei) Actinodaphne kweichowensis Yen C.Yang & P.H.Huang – China (southwest Guangxi and southwest Guizhou) Actinodaphne lambirensis Tagane, Yahara & N.Okabe – Borneo (Sarawak) Actinodaphne lanata Meisn. – southern India Actinodaphne lanceolata Dalzell & A.Gibson – western India Actinodaphne latifolia Teschner – New Guinea Actinodaphne lawsonii Gamble – southern India Actinodaphne lecomtei C.K.Allen – China (Sichuan, Guizhou, and northern Guangdong) Actinodaphne ledermannii Teschner – New Guinea Actinodaphne leiophylla (Kurz) Hook.f. – southern Myanmar Actinodaphne longipes Kosterm. – Nepal to eastern India, Vietnam Actinodaphne macgregorii (Merr.) Kosterm. – Philippines and Solomon Islands Actinodaphne macrophylla (Blume) Nees – Peninsular Malaysia, Java, and Queensland Actinodaphne macroptera Miq. – Andaman Islands and Sumatra Actinodaphne madraspatana Bedd. ex Hook.f. – southern India Actinodaphne malaccensis Hook.f. – Peninsular Malaysia Actinodaphne mansonii M.Gangop. – Myanmar Actinodaphne menghaiensis J.Li – China (southern Yunnan) Actinodaphne molochina Nees – Sri Lanka Actinodaphne moluccana Blume – Maluku Actinodaphne montana Gamble – Peninsular Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia Actinodaphne moonii Thwaites – Sri Lanka Actinodaphne multiflora Benth. – Solomon Islands Actinodaphne mushanensis (Hayata) Hayata – Taiwan Actinodaphne myriantha Merr. – Borneo Actinodaphne nicobarica M.Gangop. – Nicobar Islands Actinodaphne nitida Teschner – New Guinea and Solomon Islands Actinodaphne notabilis Doweld – Peninsular Malaysia Actinodaphne novoguineensis Teschner – New Guinea Actinodaphne obovata (Nees) Blume – central Himalayas to China (southern and southeastern Yunnan) Actinodaphne obscurinervia Yen C.Yang & P.H.Huang – China (eastern Sichuan) Actinodaphne obtusa Teschner – New Guinea Actinodaphne oleifolia Gamble – Peninsular Malaysia Actinodaphne omeiensis (H.Liu) C.K.Allen – China (Sichuan, Guizhou) and southwestern Thailand Actinodaphne paotingensis Yen C.Yang & P.H.Huang – Hainan Actinodaphne pauciflora Blume – Borneo Actinodaphne pedunculata (Blume) Meisn. – southeastern China Actinodaphne percoriacea S.Julia – Borneo Actinodaphne perglabra Kosterm. – eastern Thailand Actinodaphne perlucida C.K.Allen – southern Vietnam Actinodaphne pilosa (Lour.) Merr. – China (Guangxi, Guangdong, and Hainan), Laos, and Vietnam Actinodaphne pisifera Hook.f. – Sri Lanka Actinodaphne procera Nees – Java and Nicobar Islands Actinodaphne pruinosa Nees – Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo Actinodaphne pubescens Blume – Java Actinodaphne pulchra Teschner – New Guinea Actinodaphne quercina Blume – Java Actinodaphne ramosii Brambach & Pelser – Philippines Actinodaphne rehderiana (C.K.Allen) Kosterm. ex Dao – northern Vietnam Actinodaphne reticulata Meisn. – Assam Actinodaphne ridleyi Gamble – Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia (Johor) Actinodaphne robusta S.Julia – Borneo Actinodaphne rufescens Blume – Borneo Actinodaphne rumphii Blume – Maluku Actinodaphne salicina Meisn. – southern India Actinodaphne samarensis (Merr.) Merr. – southern Philippines Actinodaphne scleroptera Miq. – Sumatra Actinodaphne semengohensis S.Julia – Borneo Actinodaphne sesquipedalis Hook.f. & Thomson ex Meisn. – Myanmar, Andaman Islands, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Andaman Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, and Borneo Actinodaphne shendurunii Robi & Udayan – India (Kerala) Actinodaphne sikkimensis Meisn. – Nepal to eastern India, Myanmar, and Thailand Actinodaphne soepadmoi S.Julia – Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo Actinodaphne solomonensis C.K.Allen – Solomon Islands Actinodaphne spathulifolia S.Julia – Borneo Actinodaphne speciosa Nees – Sri Lanka Actinodaphne stenophylla Thwaites – Sri Lanka Actinodaphne sulcata S.Julia – Borneo Actinodaphne superba Boerl. – Borneo and Sulawesi Actinodaphne tadulingamii Gamble – western and southern India Actinodaphne tayabensis (Elmer) Merr. – Philippines Actinodaphne tomentosa Teschner – New Guinea Actinodaphne tonkinensis Dao – Vietnam Actinodaphne trichocarpa C.K.Allen – China (Sichuan, northeastern Yunnan, and Guizhou) Actinodaphne tsaii Hu – China (southern and southeastern Yunnan) Actinodaphne venosa S.Julia – Borneo Actinodaphne wightiana (Kuntze) Noltie – BorneoThis page is based on this
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