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Machilus

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image = M thunbergii.JPG

|image_caption = Machilus thunbergii leaves, also known as Persea thunbergii

|taxon = Machilus

|authority = Nees

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = See text

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{{Commonscat|Machilus}}

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Machilus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae. It is found in temperate, subtropical, and tropical forest, occurring in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Indochina, the Indian subcontinent, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. It is sometimes included in the genus Persea,{{cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40005008?tab=synonyms |title=Tropicos.org}} and currently includes about 100 species.{{Cite book |author=Shugang Li |author2=Xi-wen Li |author3=Jie Li |author4=Puhua Huang |author5=Fa-Nan Wei |author6=Hongbin Cui |author7=Henk van der Werff |chapter-url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=119262 |title=Flora of China |chapter= Machilus Rumphius ex Nees in Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 61, 70. 1831}}

Description

Machilus are evergreen trees or shrubs, some species growing as much as 30 m tall. Their entire, pinnately veined leaves are alternately borne along the stems. Their bisexual flowers are borne in inflorescences that are usually paniculate, terminal, subterminal, or arising from near base of branchlets, with long peduncles or rarely without peduncles. Perianth tubes are short; perianth lobes 6 in 2 series, equal, subequal, or occasionally outer ones conspicuously smaller than inner ones, usually persistent, rarely deciduous. Fertile stamens 9 in 3 series, anthers 4-celled, 1st and 2nd series of stamens eglandular, anthers introrse, 3rd series of stamens glandular, anthers extrorse or lateral, glands stipitate to sessile. Staminodes in 4th series, sagittate. Ovary sessile; stigmas small, dish-shaped or capitate. Fruits are fleshy, globose, rarely ellipsoid or oblong, subtended at base by persistent and reflexed perianth lobes; the fruiting pedicel does not become enlarged.

Image:Machilus japonica1.jpg|M. japonica

Image:Machilus japonica2.jpg|M. japonica

Image:Machilus japonica3.jpg|M. japonica

Image:Machilus japonica4.jpg|M. japonica

Species

The genus includes the following species:[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:21446-1 Machilus Nees]. Plants of the World Online, Kew Science. Accessed 21 May 2025.

File:Machilus yunnanensis - Kunming Botanical Garden - DSC02971.JPG

File:倒卵葉楠 Machilus obovatifolia 20210608151722 07.jpg

File:大葉楠 Machilus kusanoi 20220210142904 12.jpg

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External links

  • {{citation |url=http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw/bitstream/246246/161801/1/19.pdf |title=Contrasting phylogeographical patterns of two closely related species, Machilus thunbergii and Machilus kusanoi (Lauraceae), in Taiwan |author1=Su-Hwa Wu |author2=Ching-Yuan Hwang |author3=Tsan-Piao Lin |author4=Jeng-Der Chung |author5=Yu-Pin Cheng |author6=Shih-Ying Hwang |journal=Journal of Biogeography |year=2006 |volume=33 |issue=5 |pages=936–947 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01431.x|bibcode=2006JBiog..33..936W }}

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Category:Lauraceae genera

Category:Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck