Litsea chartacea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Laurales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Magnoliids Ordo: Laurales

Familia: Lauraceae
Tribus: Laureae
Genus: Litsea
Species: Litsea chartacea
Varietates: L. c. var. chartacea – L. c. var. subtriplinervis

Name

Litsea chartacea (Wall. ex Nees) Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5(13): 170 (1886)

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Tetranthera chartacea Wall. [Numer. List: n. 2531, nom. nud.] ex Nees, Pl. Asiat. Rar. (Wallich) 2(8): 67 (1831)
    • Type: N. Wallich Cat. No. 2531 (with female flowers; Lectotype: GZU 000254464^{(GBIF, JSTOR)} [designated by Singh 2017]; Isolectotypes: CAL [seen by Singh], K [​K001116366^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}], L {0036650^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}, 0036651^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}}, NY [​NY00355967^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}, right-hand specimen]).
    • Type locality: Napalia [= Nepal].
• Homotypic
  • Tetranthera chartacea Wall. ex Meisn., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 15(1): 186 (1864), isonym
  • Malapoenna chartacea (Wall. ex Nees) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 572 (1891)

Notes

• Allen (1938) synonymized Litsea eberhardtii H.Liu and L. baviensis Lecomte var. venulosa H.Liu with L. chartacea, but Yang et al. (1978) placed the latter under L. yunnanensis, one of their new species.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Asia-Tropical Regional: Indian Subcontinent Assam (Assam, Meghalaya), East Himalaya (Arunachal Pradesh, Bhutan, Sikkim), Nepal. Regional: Indo-China Vietnam. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Hooker, J.D., assisted by various botanists, 1886–1890. The Flora of British India, Vol. 5. Chenopodiaceae to Orchideae. 910 pp. London: L. Reeve. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Wallich, N. 1828–1849. A Numerical List of Dried Specimens of plants in the Museum of the Honl. East India Company, which have been supplied by Dr. Wallich, superintendent of the botanic garden at Calcutta. London. BHL Reference page. 
• Wallich, N. 1831. Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, or, Descriptions and figures of a select number of unpublished East Indian plants. Vol. 2. pp. 101–200. London. BHL Reference page. 
• Meisner, C.F. 1864. Lauraceae. In De Candolle, A.P. (ed.) (†) Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive enumeratio contracta ordinum, generum, specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta, Pars 15(1), 1-260. Masson et Fils, Parisiis [Paris]. BHL Reference page. 
• Kuntze, O. 1891. Revisio generum plantarum vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum. Pars II. Pp. 377–1011. Arthur Felix, Leipzig [etc.]. BHL Reference page. 
• Allen, C.K. 1938. Studies in the Lauraceae. I. Chinese and Indo-Chinese Species of Litsea, Neolitsea, and Actinodaphne. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 25:361-434. BHL Reference page.  [see pages 377–378]
• Yang, Y.C., Huang, P.H., Tsui, H.P., Li, H.W. & Pai, P.Y. 1978. Materiae ad Floram Lauracearum Sinicarum (II). Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 16(4): 38–69. PDF download Reference page.  [see page 56]
• Dao, N.K. 2017. Thực Vật Chí Việt Nam. Flora of Vietnam 20. 698 pp. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản khoa học và kỹ thuật. (Vietnamese) Reference page. 
• Singh, R. Kr. 2017. Nomenclatural novelties and lectotypifications in Litsea (Lauraceae). Kew Bulletin 72(2)-20: 1–9. DOI: 10.1007/S12225-017-9693-6 (via Wikipedia Library ). JSTOR . Reference page. 
• Wangchuk, J., Tshering, T., Dorji, D. & Wangdi, K. 2023. Nine new records of plants from Bhutan. Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy 53(2): 170–180. DOI: 10.11110/kjpt.2023.53.2.170 . Reference page. 

Links

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2024. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Litsea chartacea. Accessed: 2024 January 13.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Litsea chartacea in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 January 13. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2024. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Litsea chartacea. Accessed: 13 January 2024.
• International Plant Names Index. 2024. Litsea chartacea. Published online. Accessed: 13 January 2024.
• Tropicos.org 2024. Litsea chartacea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 13 January 2024.