Beilschmiedia

Beilschmiedia miersii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae

(unranked): Angiosperms

(unranked): Magnoliids

Order: Laurales

Family: Lauraceae

Genus: Beilschmiedia
Nees
Species

See text.

Synonyms

• Bernieria Baill.
• Hufelandia Nees
• Lauromerrillia C.K.Allen
• Nesodaphne Hook.f.
• Thouvenotia Danguy
• Tylostemon Engl.

Beilschmiedia is a genus of trees and shrubs in family Lauraceae. Most of species grow in tropical climates but few of them are native to temperate regions, they are widespread in tropical Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Central America, the Caribbean and South America as south as Chile. The best known species in Europe and the United States are the Chilean B. berterona and B. miersii because of their frost tolerance. Seeds of B. bancroftii were used as a source of food by Australian Aborigines[1][2]. Timbers of some species are very valuable.

It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):

• Beilschmiedia albiramea
• Beilschmiedia alloiophylla (Rusby) Kosterm.
• Beilschmiedia ambigua Robyns & R. Wilczek
• Beilschmiedia anay (S.F. Blake) Kosterm.
• Beilschmiedia appendiculata S. Lee et Y. T. Wei
• B. assamica (Syn.: B. praecox)
• Beilschmiedia bancroftii, (Yellow walnut, wanga)
• Beilschmiedia baotingensis S. Lee et Y. T. Wei
• Beilschmiedia berteroana (Gay) Kosterm., (Southern belloto)
• Beilschmiedia borneensis Merr
• Beilschmiedia brachythyrsa H.W. Li
• Beilschmiedia bracteata Robyns & R. Wilczek
• Beilschmiedia brenesii C.K. Allen
• Beilschmiedia brevipaniculata Allen
• Beilschmiedia brevipes Ridley
• Beilschmiedia bullata
• Beilschmiedia castrisinensis
• Beilschmiedia costaricensis Mez & Pittier
• Beilschmiedia curviramea (Meisn.) Kosterm.
• Beilschmiedia cylindrica
• Beilschmiedia delicata S．Lee ＆ Y．T．Wei
• Beilschmiedia dictyoneura
• Beilschmiedia elliptica
• Beilschmiedia emarginata
• Beilschmiedia erythrophloia, (Hayata)
• Beilschmiedia fasciata H. W. Li
• Beilschmiedia fordii Dunn
• Beilschmiedia fluminensis Kosterm.
• Beilschmiedia furfuracea Chun et H. T. Chang
• Beilschmiedia gammieana
• Beilschmiedia gemmiflora Kosterm.
• Beilschmiedia giorgii Robyns & R. Wilczek
• Beilschmiedia glauca
• Beilschmiedia hondurensis Kosterm.
• Beilschmiedia immersinervis Sa. Nishida
• Beilschmiedia insignis Gamble
• Beilschmiedia intermedia
• Beilschmiedia javanica Miq
• Beilschmiedia kunstleri Gamble
• Beilschmiedia kweo (Mildbr.) Robyns & Wilczek
• Beilschmiedia laevis
• Beilschmiedia letouzeyi
• Beilschmiedia linocieroides
• Beilschmiedia longipetiolata
• Beilschmiedia lucidula (Miq.) Kosterm.
• Beilschmiedia lumutensis Gamble
• Beilschmiedia macropoda
• Beilschmiedia malaccensis
• Beilschmiedia madagascariensis
• Beilschmiedia madang Blume , (Indonesia)
• Beilschmiedia maingayi
• Beilschmiedia mayumbensis Robyns & R. Wilczek
• Beilschmiedia membranacea Gamble
• Beilschmiedia mexicana
• Beilschmiedia micrantha Merr.
• Beilschmiedia miersii (Gay) Kosterm., (Northern belloto)
• Beilschmiedia muricata H. T. Chang
• Beilschmiedia obconica
• Beilschmiedia obscurinervia H. T. Chang
• Beilschmiedia obtusifolia (Meisn.) F.Muell., blush-walnut, hard bolly-gum
• Beilschmiedia oligandra
• Beilschmiedia ovalis (S.F. Blake) C.K. Allen
• Beilschmiedia pahangensis Gamble
• Beilschmiedia pauciflora
• Beilschmiedia penangiana Gamble
• Beilschmiedia pendula (Sw.) Hemsl.
• Beilschmiedia peninsularis
• Beilschmiedia percoriacea Allen
• Beilschmiedia pergamentacea Allen
• Beilschmiedia preussii Engler
• Beilschmiedia punctilimba H.W. Li
• Beilschmiedia rigida (Mez) Kosterm.
• Beilschmiedia robusta
• Beilschmiedia roxburghiana Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
• Beilschmiedia rufohirtella H.W. Li
• Beilschmiedia sichourensis
• Beilschmiedia sikkimensis
• Beilschmiedia sulcata (Ruiz & Pav.) Kosterm.
• Beilschmiedia tarairi A. Cunn., (Taraire)
• Beilschmiedia tawa (A. Cunn.) Kirk, Tawa
• Beilschmiedia tilaranensis Sa. Nishida
• Beilschmiedia tooram
• Beilschmiedia tovarensis (Meisn.) Sa. Nishida
• Beilschmiedia tsangii Merr.
• Beilschmiedia tungfangensis
• Beilschmiedia ugandensis Rendle
• Beilschmiedia undulata
• Beilschmiedia velutina
• Beilschmiedia vermoesenii Robyns & R. Wilczek
• Beilschmiedia wangii Allen
• Beilschmiedia wightii
• Beilschmiedia yaanica
• Beilschmiedia yunnanensis Hu
• Beilschmiedia zapoteoides
• Beilschmiedia zeylanica Trimen

External links and references

• Beilschmiedia: information from Hebe Society New Zealand
• Beilschmiedia: information from Encyclopedia of Chilean Flora
• Commercial timbers: Beilschmiedia

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