# Andea

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Laurel dorado - Amarillo (Ocotea sericea) (14558138177).jpg
|image_caption = ''[Andea sericea](/source/Andea_sericea)'' in [Armenia, Colombia](/source/Armenia%2C_Colombia)
|taxon = Andea
|authority = van der Werff
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = 26; see text
|subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Andea'' van der Werff |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77312141-1 |website=[Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) |publisher=[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew](/source/Royal_Botanic_Gardens%2C_Kew) |access-date=21 May 2025}}</ref>
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'''''Andea''''' is a genus of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the family [Lauraceae](/source/Lauraceae). It includes 26 species of trees and shrubs native to the tropical Americas, including [Costa Rica](/source/Costa_Rica), [Colombia](/source/Colombia), [Venezuela](/source/Venezuela), [Ecuador](/source/Ecuador), and [Peru](/source/Peru).<ref name = powo/> Most species grow in the northern [Andes](/source/Andes) mountains, after which the genus is named, in tropical montane forests above 1000 meters elevation. One species (''[A. fulvescens](/source/Andea_fulvescens)'') is native to the [Cordillera de Talamanca](/source/Cordillera_de_Talamanca) of Costa Rica.<ref name = Werff>Henk van der Werff "''Andea'', a New Genus of Neotropical Lauraceae," ''Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden'' 107(1), 422-431, 18 August 2022. https://doi.org/10.3417/2022748</ref>

Plants in the genus are [gynodioecious](/source/Gynodioecy), with some individual plants bearing female flowers only while others bear bisexual (hermaphrodite) flowers. The species were formerly placed in genus ''[Ocotea](/source/Ocotea)'', and are distinguished from other gynodioecious ''Ocotea'' species by their thick terete twigs (generally 6 mm or more in diameter, and 4–7 mm in diameter in a few species), sessile or nearly sessile leaves without domatia, and large flowers (6 mm or more in diameter) with rotate tepals and (shallowly) bowl-shaped cupules.<ref name = Werff/>

==Species==
26 species are accepted.<ref name = powo/>
*''[Andea adusta](/source/Andea_adusta)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea antioquiensis](/source/Andea_antioquiensis)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea argyrea](/source/Andea_argyrea)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea carchiensis](/source/Andea_carchiensis)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea ceronii](/source/Andea_ceronii)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea crinita](/source/Andea_crinita)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea ferruginea](/source/Andea_ferruginea)'' {{small|van der Werff}}
*''[Andea fulvescens](/source/Andea_fulvescens)'' {{small|(Standl. & L.O.Williams) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea homeieri](/source/Andea_homeieri)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea hueckii](/source/Andea_hueckii)'' {{small|(Bernardi) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea infrafoveolata](/source/Andea_infrafoveolata)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea kolera](/source/Andea_kolera)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea lorda](/source/Andea_lorda)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea micans](/source/Andea_micans)'' {{small|(Mez) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea multinervis](/source/Andea_multinervis)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea nidiae](/source/Andea_nidiae)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea oreophila](/source/Andea_oreophila)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea otara](/source/Andea_otara)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea raymondiana](/source/Andea_raymondiana)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea santamartae](/source/Andea_santamartae)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea sericea](/source/Andea_sericea)'' {{small|(Kunth) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea smithiana](/source/Andea_smithiana)'' {{small|(O.C.Schmidt) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea sodiroana](/source/Andea_sodiroana)'' {{small|(Mez) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea subparamicola](/source/Andea_subparamicola)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea tunquiensis](/source/Andea_tunquiensis)'' {{small|(van der Werff) van der Werff}}
*''[Andea velutina](/source/Andea_velutina)'' {{small|(Meisn.) van der Werff}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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Category:Lauraceae
Category:Lauraceae genera
Category:Flora of Southern America
Category:Taxa described in 2022

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