Lauraceae are the laurel family, that includes the true laurel and its closest relatives. This family of flowering plants comprises about 2850 known species in about 45 genera worldwide. They are dicotyledons, and occur mainly in warm temperate and tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and South America. Many are aromatic evergreen trees or shrubs, but some, such as Sassafras, are deciduous, or include both deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, especially in tropical and temperate climates. Cassytha is a genus unique to the Lauraceae in that it is a genus of parasitic vines.
Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen aromatic trees and shrubs belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. The species of Cinnamomum have aromatic oils in their leaves and bark. The genus contains over 300 species, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of North America, Central America, South America, Asia, Oceania, and Australasia. The genus includes a great number of economically important trees.
Cinnamomum tamala, Indian bay leaf', also known as ತಮಾಲ (Tamaala) in Kannada(ಕನ್ನಡ), மரப்பட்டை இலை in தமிழ்(Tamizh), tejpat, tejapatta, Malabar leaf, Indian bark, Indian cassia, or malabathrum, is a tree in the Lauraceae family that is native to India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. It can grow up to 20 m (66 ft) tall. Its leaves have a clove-like aroma with a hint of peppery taste, they are used for culinary and medicinal purposes. It is thought to have been one of the major sources of the medicinal plant leaves known in classic and medieval times as malabathrum.
Cinnamomum burmannii, also known as Indonesian cinnamon, Padang cassia, Batavia cassia, or korintje, is one of several plants in the genus Cinnamomum whose bark is sold as the spice cinnamon. The most common and cheapest type of cinnamon in the US is made from powdered C. burmannii. Cinnamomum burmannii oil contains no eugenol, but higher amounts of coumarin than cassia and Ceylon cinnamon with 2.14 g/kg in an authenticated sample. It is also sold as quills of one layer.
Neocinnamomum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. They are evergreen shrubs or small trees, indigenous to Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia (Sumatra), Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Ocotea argylei is a species of Ocotea in the Lauraceae plant family. It is a medium-sized to large tree 10–21 m tall, in some case to 30 m. Its status is classed as vulnerable. It is endemic to Kenya. The fruits are oblong berries which are covered by a cup-shaped cupule where they join the peduncle, giving them an appearance similar to an acorn. The leaves are elliptic with an acuminate tip. O. argylei is classified in the Flora of Tropical East Africa by the Royal Botanic Gardens, of Kew as Ocotea kenyensis (Chiov.) Robyns & R. Wilczek, with which it is possibly synonymous.
Cinnamomum osmophloeum, commonly known as pseudocinnamomum or indigenous cinnamon, is a medium-sized evergreen tree in the genus Cinnamomum. It is native to broad-leaved forests of central and northern Taiwan.
Cinnamomum citriodorum is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae. It is endemic to Western Ghats and Sri Lanka. It is commonly known as Malabar Cinnamon. It has a characteristic smell of lemon grass. C citriodorum has 45% Cinnamaldehyde compared to 80% for C cassia.
Cinnamomum iners is a tree species in the family Lauraceae described by Reinwardt and Blume. No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life. It occurs naturally in Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and southern China and south-eastern Tibet.
Cinnamomum parthenoxylon is an evergreen tree in the genus Cinnamomum, 10–20 m (33–66 ft) tall. It is native to South and East Asia. In Vietnam, the tree is considered Critically endangered.
Cinnamomum verum, called true cinnamon tree or Ceylon cinnamon tree is a small evergreen tree belonging to the family Lauraceae, native to Sri Lanka. Among other species, its inner bark is used to make cinnamon.
Cinnadenia is a flowering plant genus belonging to the family Lauraceae. They are present in low and mountain cloud forest in Southeast Asia.
Mocinnodaphne is a neotropical genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Lauraceae. The genus includes a single species of evergreen trees, Mocinnodaphne cinnamomoidea which is distributed mostly in tropical and subtropical regions of North America and Central America.
Cinnamomum glanduliferum, common name false camphor tree or Nepal camphor tree, is a tree in the genus Cinnamomum, belonging to the Lauraceae family.
Cinnamomum mercadoi (kalingag) is a small tree, about 6 to 10 metres high, with a thick, aromatic bark. The plant part of the Lauraceae family, which contains about 45 genera and 2000-2500 species, and is related to the culinary cinnamon, sassafras, and bay tree. The plant is indigenous to the Philippines, where it grows best in forests at low and medium altitudes that sometimes ascend to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft). C. mercadoi is unusual in the cinnamon family in that its essential oil consists large amounts of safrol, whereas other oils of cinnamon contain cinnamaldehyde. It is currently listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List as "vulnerable" due to the overharvesting and the continuous loss of the Philippine forests.
Orthaga aenescens is a species of snout moth in the genus Orthaga. It is known from India.
Cinnamomum ovalifoilium, called wild cinnamon or wal kurundu in Sinhala, is an evergreen tree endemic to Sri Lanka. It is in brink of extinction due to point distribution.
Cinnamomum elegans is a species of plants belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae, found in Samoa.
Cinnamomum kanehirae, also known as small-flowered camphor tree, or stout camphor tree, is a tree within the Lauraceae family and the Cinnamomum genus which is endemic to Taiwan.
Cinnamomum malabatrum, wild cinnamon, country cinnamon also known as Malabathrum, is a tree in the Lauraceae family that is endemic to Western Ghats of India. It can grow up to 15 m (49 ft) tall. It has aromatic leaves that are used for culinary and medicinal purposes. It is thought to have been one of the major sources of the medicinal plant leaves known in classic and medieval times as malabathrum.
