Litsea

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Litsea japonica HabitusFlowers BotGard0906b.JPG |image_caption = ''Litsea japonica'' |taxon = Litsea |authority = Lam. |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text |synonyms = {{collapsible list | *''Adenodaphne'' S.Moore *''Bistania'' Noronha *''Cubeba'' Raf. *''Cylicodaphne'' Nees *''Darwinia'' Dennst. *''Decapenta'' Raf. *''Dipliathus'' Raf. *''Fiwa'' J.F.Gmel. *''Heckeria'' Raf. *''Hexanthus'' Lour. *''Iozoste'' Nees *''Iteadaphne'' Blume *''Lepidadenia'' Nees *''Malapoenna'' Adans. *''Pipalia'' Stokes *''Pseudolitsea'' Y.C.Yang *''Quinquedula'' Noronha *''Sebifera'' Lour. *''Tetranthera'' Jacq. *''Tomex'' Thunb. }} |synonyms_ref = <ref name="POWO">{{cite web |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331725-2 |title=''Litsea'' Lam. |author= |date=2024 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=29 July 2024 }}</ref> }}

'''''Litsea''''' is a genus of evergreen or deciduous trees or shrubs belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. The genus includes a large number of accepted species in tropical and subtropical areas of Asia, Australasia, the western Pacific, and North and Central America.<ref name="POWO" />

==Characteristics== thumbnail|''Litsea japonica'' They are typically dioecious trees or shrubs. The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen depending on species, and aromatic. They have leaves alternate or opposite or in whorls.<ref name=FOC>{{cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=118754|title=Flora of China online|author1=Puhua Huang |author2=Jie Li |author3=Xi-wen Li |author4=Henk van der Werff |name-list-style=amp }}</ref> The inconspicuous flowers range from greenish to white, greenish-yellow, to yellowish. The inflorescences are pseudo-umbels, flat-topped or rounded flower clusters, each pseudo-umbel with an involucre of four or six decussate bracts.<ref name=FOC/>

==Selected species== {{Main|List of Litsea species}}  {{Div col|colwidth=20em}} *''Litsea auriculata'' {{small|S.S.Chien & W.C.Cheng}} *''Litsea australis'' {{small|B.Hyland}} *''Litsea bindoniana'' {{small|(F.Muell.) F.Muell.}} *''Litsea calicaris'' {{small|Kirk}} *''Litsea claviflora'' {{small|Gamble}} *''Litsea cubeba'' {{small|(Lour.) Pers.}} *''Litsea curtisii'' {{small|Gamble}} *''Litsea dilleniifolia'' {{small|P.Y.Pai & P.H.Huang}} *''Litsea garciae'' {{small|S.Vidal}} *''Litsea gardneri'' {{small|(Thwaites) Meisn.}} *''Litsea glaberrima'' {{small|(Thwaites) Trimen}} *''Litsea glaucescens'' {{small|Kunth}} *''Litsea glutinosa'' {{small|(Lour.) C.B.Rob.}} *''Litsea granitica'' {{small|B.Hyland}} *''Litsea hirsutissima'' {{small|Gamble}} *''Litsea imbricata'' {{small|Guillaumin}} *''Litsea iteodaphne'' {{small|(Nees) Hook.f.}} *''Litsea kakkachensis'' {{small|R.Ganesan}} *''Litsea leefeana'' {{small|(F.Muell.) Merr.}} *''Litsea leiantha'' {{small|(Kurz) Hook.f.}} *''Litsea leytensis'' {{small|Merr.}} *''Litsea ligustrina'' {{small|(Nees) Fern.-Vill.}} *''Litsea monopetala'' {{small|(Roxb.) Pers.}} *''Litsea nemoralis'' {{small|(Thwaites) Trimen}} *''Litsea nigrescens'' {{small|Gamble}} *''Litsea ovalifolia'' {{small|(Wight) Trimen}} *''Litsea penangiana'' {{small|Hook.f.}} *''Litsea reticulata'' {{small|(Meisn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex F.Muell.}} *''Litsea travancorica'' {{small|Gamble}} *''Litsea umbellata'' {{small|(Lour.) Merr.}} *''Litsea wightiana'' {{small|(Nees) Wall. ex Hook.f.}} {{Div col end}}

==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}}

Category:Litsea Category:Lauraceae genera Category:Dioecious plants Category:Flora of the Australasian realm Category:Flora of the Indomalayan realm Category:Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck