*Cinnamomum Schaeffer. Cinnamon.
A genus of about 230 species, trees and shrubs, of tropical Asia. Yang et al. (2022b) found Old World Cinnamomum to be diphyletic, with one group sister to Sassafras; these taxa are now recognized as Camphora.
Ref: Franck (2012); Huang et al. (2016); van der Werff (1997a) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (1997); Yang et al. (2022b). Show full citations.
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