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Key to Lauraceae

Lauraceae

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Twining vines (orange, yellow, or greenish); leaves reduced to scales; [tribe Cassytheae]
 ⇒ Cassytha filiformis

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(c) Horn, Jay
(c) Cressler, Alan M.
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Shrubs or trees; leaves present and well-developed.

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Leaves deciduous; flowers unisexual.
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Some of the leaves with 1-2 (-5) rounded lobes; small to medium trees; [tribe Cinnamomeae]
 ⇒ Sassafras albidum

(c) Danielson, Erik
(c) Cressler, Alan M.
(c) Fleming, Gary P.
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None of the leaves lobed; medium to large shrubs; [tribe Laureae].

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(c) Fleming, Gary P.
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Leaves 4-16 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, obovate, ovate, or broadly elliptic
 ⇒ Lindera

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Leaves 1.2-4 cm long, 0.5-1.5 (-1.9) cm wide, narrowly elliptic
 ⇒ Litsea aestivalis

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(c) Fleming, Gary P.
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Leaves evergreen; flowers bisexual; [tribe Perseeae].
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Leaf surfaces glabrous, bright green; leaf venation either 3-nerved from at or near the base of the blade or pinnate; crushed leaves with the odor of camphor; [tribe Cinnamomeae].
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Leaves with 3 main veins from near then base (these with 0-2 obvious lateral veins); principal vein axils with yellow, thickened, and pubescent domatia visible on either the lower or upper surface of the leaf; buds with bud scales
 ⇒ Camphora officinarum

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Leaves pinnately veined (the 2 lateral veins with obvious and 3 or more lateral veins); principal vein axils lacking domatia; buds lacking bud scales
 ⇒ Cinnamomum

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Leaf surfaces pubescent to glabrate or glabrous, dark to medium green; leaf venation strongly pinnate; principal vein axils lacking yellow domatia; crushed fresh leaves with the odor of bay.

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Leaves mostly more than 15 cm long; drupe > 5 cm long; [tribe Perseae]
 ⇒ Persea americana

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Leaves less than 15 cm long; drupe < 3 cm long.
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Leaf lower surface moderately to densely pubescent with ascending or appressed hairs (in some species these so appressed or small as to need 10× magnification to reliably detect); fruiting pedicel and cupule remaining tan or turning somewhat reddish; [collectively widespread in the Coastal Plain and rarely more inland provinces]; [tribe Perseae]
 ⇒ Tamala

(c) Horn, Jay
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Leaf lower surface glabrous; fruiting cupule and/or pedicel turning bright red at maturity; [of s. peninsular FL only]; [tribe Cinnamomeae].
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Fruiting cupule not flanged; fertile stamens 9 (+ 3 glandular staminodes), the anthers 4-celled
 ⇒ Damburneya coriacea

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Fruiting cupule with a prominent circumferential flange near the rim; fertile stamens 3 (+ 3 glandular staminodes), the anthers 2-celled
 ⇒ Licaria triandra

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