Camphora (plant)

Camphora
	Camphora officinarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Magnoliids
Order:	Laurales
Family:	Lauraceae
Genus:	Camphora; Fabr.
Species
	See text.
Synonyms
	Parthenoxylon Blume;

Camphora is a genus of evergreen plants belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. The genus contains approximately 20 species, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia. This genus was previously considered a synonym of Cinnamomum.^[1]

Description

Species of Camphora are evergreen trees or shrubs. Their leaves are alternate and pinnately veined or weakly tripliveined, which differed from the opposite or subopposite and tripliveined leaves of Cinnamomum species.

sagittate heads in the fourth androecial whorl. The fruits are cupulate.^[1]

Taxonomy and phylogeny

The genus Camphora was introduced in 1759 by the German botanist

s.l. for a long time. And species were classified in the Sect. Camphora of Cinnamomum. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2022 found that the large genus Cinnamomum was polyphyletic. In the revised classification to create monophyletic genera, the following 18 species are placed in the resurrected genus Camphora:^[1]

Camphora bodinieri ≡ Cinnamomum bodinieri
Camphora brachythyrsa ≡ Cinnamomum brachythyrsum
Camphora chartophylla ≡ Cinnamomum chartophyllum
Camphora foveolata ≡ Cinnamomum foveolatum
Camphora glandulifera ≡ Cinnamomum glanduliferum
Camphora illicioides ≡ Cinnamomum ilicioides
Camphora longepaniculata ≡ Cinnamomum longepaniculatum
Camphora micrantha ≡ Cinnamomum micranthum
Camphora migao ≡ Cinnamomum migao
Camphora mollifolia ≡ Cinnamomum mollifolium
Camphora officinarum ≡ Cinnamomum camphora – camphor laurel
Camphora parthenoxylon
≡ Cinnamomum parthenoxylon – Selasian wood, Martaban camphor wood, saffrol laurel
Camphora philippinensis ≡ Cinnamomum philippinense
Camphora platyphylla ≡ Cinnamomum platyphyllum
Camphora purpurea ≡ Cinnamomum purpureum
Camphora rufotomentosa ≡ Cinnamomum rufomentosum
Camphora septentrionalis ≡ Cinnamomum septentrionale
Camphora tenuipilis ≡ Cinnamomum tenuipile

The following species are classified in the Sect. Camphora of Cinnamomum s.l.,^[2] while the new combinations have not yet been published:

Its relationship with closely related taxa is shown below:^[1]

Ocotea group

	Camphora

	Sassafras

	Cinnamomum

	Kuloa

References

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PMID 36203627. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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^ ^a ^b Li (李), Xiwen (锡文), ed. (1982). Lauraceae & Hernandiaceae. Vol. 13. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^ Fabricius, P. C. (1759). Enumeratio methodica plantarum horti medici Helmstadiensis: Subiuncta stirpium rariorum vel nondum satis extricatarum descriptione. Litteris Ioannis Drimbornii.

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[frps-2] Li (李), Xiwen (锡文), ed. (1982). Lauraceae & Hernandiaceae. Vol. 13. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

[3] Fabricius, P. C. (1759). Enumeratio methodica plantarum horti medici Helmstadiensis: Subiuncta stirpium rariorum vel nondum satis extricatarum descriptione. Litteris Ioannis Drimbornii.

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