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Lauraceae

Litsea

Litsea wightiana (Nees) Wall. ex Hook.f.

First published in Fl. Brit. India 5: 177 (1886)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is W. India. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution
Synonyms
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Other data

Native to:

India, Myanmar

Homotypic Synonyms

Cylicodaphne wightiana Nees in N.Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 68 (1831)
Malapoenna wightiana (Nees) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 573 (1891)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Cylicodaphne wightiana var. glabrescens Meisn. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1): 201 (1864)
Tetranthera wightiana Wall. in Numer. List: n.° 2557 (1830), nom. nud.
Tetranthera wightii Nees in Syst. Laur.: 523 (1836)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Kress, W.J., DeFilipps, R.A., Farr, E. & Kyi, D.Y.Y. (2003). A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Climbers of Myanmar. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45: 1-590. Smithsonian Institution.
Rodrigues de Moraes, P.L. (2013). The collections of Lauraceae in the herbarium of Henri Van Heurck (AWH). Plant ecology and evolution 146: 360-383.
Srinivas, S.G. & Krishnamurthy, Y.L. (2016). Taxonomy and distribution of genus Litsea Lam (Lauraceae) in Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. Journal of the Indian Botanical Society 95: 169-182.

Kew Backbone Distributions

Kress, W.J., DeFilipps, R.A., Farr, E. & Kyi, D.Y.Y. (2003). A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Climbers of Myanmar. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45: 1-590. Smithsonian Institution.
Rodrigues de Moraes, P.L. (2013). The collections of Lauraceae in the herbarium of Henri Van Heurck (AWH). Plant ecology and evolution 146: 360-383.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

IUCN Categories
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0