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Chlorocardium rodiei (greenheart) is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae. It is one of three species in the genus Chlorocardium. It is native to Guyana and Suriname, both in South America. Other common names include cogwood, demerara greenheart, greenhart, ispingo moena, sipiri, bebeeru and bibiru. It is an evergreen tree growing 15 to 30 m tall, with a trunk diameter of 35 to 60 cm. Its leaves are oppositely arranged and simple with smooth edges. Its fruit is a drupe containing a single seed. The cyclic bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloid rodiasine was first isolated from this

Chlorocardium is a genus of the family Lauraceae. It contains only three species, C. esmeraldense, C. rodiei and C. venenosum, and is native to northern South America. The name Chlorocardium means green (chloro-) heart (cardia), referring to the wood. They are trees up to 40 m high, mostly 30 m high, and are hermaphrodites. They are slow-growing canopy evergreen trees and have a valuable timber. The wood and bark are pleasantly scented. They are present in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and the Guiana Shield (in northeastern Brazil, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro states), Guyana,

Persea glabra is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae. It is a tree endemic to northeastern Brazil.

Cryptocarya agathophylla (known sometimes as clove nutmeg) is a member of the laurel family, Lauraceae, and originates in Madagascar. Malagasy names include tavolobelelo, havozo, hazomanitra and tavolomanitra. The former genus name Ravensara is a latinization of the Malagasy word ravintsara. However, ravintsara more properly refers to a local high-cineole chemotype of Camphora officinarum.

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Persea julianae is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae. It is a tree endemic to Suriname.

Kubitzia is an American neotropical flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae with two species from South America.

Persea nudigemma is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae, commonly known as laurel. It is a flowering, leafy plant endemic to subtropical or tropical moist montane forests in Ecuador.

Ocotea uxpanapana is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae. It is a species of evergreen tree in the genus Ocotea. It is native to Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Veracruz states in southern Mexico. It is a large tree which can grow up to 30 metres tall with a bole 1 metre in diameter. It generally flowers in February and March and fruits in September and October. It grows in lowland tropical rain forests, riparian forests, and cloud forests from 60 to 1,050 metres elevation. It typically grows at stream or wetland edges or on deep limestone-derived soils. Commonly associated trees

Ocotea rotundata is a species of evergreen tree in the genus of plants Ocotea, in the family Lauraceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Stenomesson leucanthum is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is native to Peru. Pierfelice Ravenna, the Chilean botanists who first formally described the species, using the basionym Pucara leucantha, named it after its white (Latinized form of Greek λευκός, leukós) flowers (Latinized form of Greek ἄνθος, ánthos).

Sextonia is a neotropical genus of plants in the family Lauraceae, native to South America. There are two species. They grow in moist forest from 900 to 1600 m. The flowers are hermaphrodite. Occurring in Northern South America: Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana and Brazil: in the river valleys of Amapa, Maranhao and Para. In the Caribbean area: Trinidad and Tobago.

Ocotea rugosa is a species of evergreen tree to 10 m (33 ft) tall in the plant genus Ocotea, in the family Lauraceae. It is endemic to Andean Ecuador at an altitude of 1,700 to 2,500 m (5,600 to 8,200 ft). Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and cloud forest. This species requires moisture and protection of other trees for growing. The principal threats are fires, grazing, and the conversion of forest to farmland. In Ecuador it is known from ten widely scattered populations, including the Parque Nacional Llanganates, Chillanes-El Tambo, Pichincha volcano,

Ocotea amplifolia is a plant species in the family Lauraceae. It is a small tree endemic to Guatemala where it has only been found in the department Quiché.

Chlorocardium venenosum is a species of tree in the family Lauraceae. It is native to Colombia and Ecuador in northwestern South America.

Caryodaphnopsis cogolloi is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae endemic to Colombia.

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Aniba pilosa is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Aiouea obscura is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae endemic to Costa Rica. The species occurs on the southern Pacific slopes, south-east of Palmar north.

Yasunia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae, found in Ecuador and Peru. Yasunia appears to be nested within Beilschmiedia.

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Stenomesson chloranthum is a species of flowering plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. It is endemic to Peru. Alan Meerow and Henk van der Werff the botanists who first formally described the species, named it after its green (Latinized form of Greek χλωρός, khlōrós) flowers (Latinized form of Greek ἄνθος, ánthos).

Pleurothyrium obovatum is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Pleurothyrium hexaglandulosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae. It is a tree native to Costa Rica and Panama.

Pleurothyrium giganthum is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

Persea brevipetiolata is a plant species known from the Mexican States of Oaxaca and Veracruz. It is found in lowland forests in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec at elevations less than 250 m. Persea brevipetiolata is a tree up to 8 m tall. Leaves are elliptical, thick and leathery, up to 16 cm long, with petioles less than 8 mm long, and with raised veins forming a conspicuous network on the underside. Flowers are about 4 mm in diameter, hairless, yellow-green. Fruits are spherical, about 2 mm in diameter.

Paraia is a genus of plant in family Lauraceae. It is a Neotropical genus with just one species, Paraia bracteata, native to the south-east of Brazil. The genus was described in 1991. Paraia is a hardwood evergreen tree that usually grows to 8 m tall; one individual has been recorded as 20 m. It occurs in an extensive area in the Brazilian states of Pará and Amazonas, in the drainage area of the Amazon Basin to the Atlantic rainforest of southern Brazil at the Trombetas River. The fruit is a berry.

Ocotea porphyria is a species of evergreen tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae). It is native to southern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina, where it lives in humid montane forests, or Yungas, on the eastern side of the Andes. Common names include laurel del cerro, laurel la falda, laurel tucumano, and ayuínandí.

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Licaria velutina is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae. It is a tree endemic to Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Veracruz in southern Mexico.