Cinnamomum Schaeffer 1760 (cinnamon)

Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae

Alternative spelling: Laurocarpum (Cinnamomum)

Parent taxon: Lauraceae according to M. Prasad et al. 2017

See also Antal and Awasthi 1993, Berry 1914, Brown 1959, Chandler 1961, Chandler 1963, Chauhan 1991, Knowlton 1899, Knowlton 1919, Lakhanpal et al. 1976, Liu et al. 1996, Mabberley 2000, MacGinitie 1941, Ozaki 1974, Prasad 2008 and Srivastava 1991

Sister taxa: Actinodaphne, Alseodaphne, Bandulskaia, Beilschmiedia, Benzoin, Crowella, Cryptocarya, Cryptocaryoides, Daphnogene, Daphnophyllum, Diemenia, Goeppertia, Lauraceaephyllum, Lauraceophylloderma, Lauranthus, Laurinastrum, Laurinoxylon, Laurocalyx, Laurocarpum, Laurophyllites, Laurophyllum, Laurus, Lindera, Litsaeophyllum, Litsea, Litseaphyllum, Litseopsis, Machilus, Machilusoxylon, Malapoenna, Marmarthia, Mauldinia, Mespilodaphne, Mezilaurinoxylon, Michilus, Nectandra, Nectandrophyllum, Neocinnamomum, Neolitsea, Nothaphoebe, Ocotea, Ocoteoxylon, Oreodaphne, Persea, Perseanthus, Perseoxylon, Persites, Phoebe, Piliparicutis, Potomacanthus, Protoravensara, Sassafras, Sassafrophyllum, Trianthera, Ulminium, Umbellularia

Subtaxa: Cinnamomum acrodromum Cinnamomum affine Cinnamomum angustum Cinnamomum bendirei Cinnamomum buchi Cinnamomum canadense Cinnamomum corrugatum Cinnamomum crassipes Cinnamomum crassipetiolatum Cinnamomum dilleri Cinnamomum ellipsoideum Cinnamomum ellipticum Cinnamomum eokachchhensis Cinnamomum ficifolium Cinnamomum glanduliferum Cinnamomum globulare Cinnamomum grande Cinnamomum heerii Cinnamomum hesperium Cinnamomum lanceolatum Cinnamomum lignitum Cinnamomum linifolium Cinnamomum marioni Cinnamomum membranaceum Cinnamomum middendorfensis Cinnamomum mioinuctum Cinnamomum miokachchhensis Cinnamomum miotavoyanum Cinnamomum mississippiensis Cinnamomum nepalensis Cinnamomum newberryi Cinnamomum novaeangliae Cinnamomum oblongatum Cinnamomum oblongum Cinnamomum obovatus Cinnamomum ovoides Cinnamomum ovoideum Cinnamomum palaeotamala Cinnamomum postnewberryi Cinnamomum scheuchzeri Cinnamomum sezannense Cinnamomum spectabile Cinnamomum stantoni Cinnamomum tamala Cinnamomum vera Cinnamomum wardii

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Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution:

• Quaternary of China (1 collection), India (2), Japan (1), Vietnam (1)

• Pliocene of China (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of India (6), Japan (3), Nepal (1)

• Miocene of Brazil (1), China (7), Germany (7), India (2), Japan (9), Nepal (1), Poland (1), Switzerland (8)

• Neogene of China (1)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), Vietnam (1)

• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), China (6), India (2), Japan (7), the United Kingdom (5), United States (10: California, Wyoming)

• Clarkforkian of United States (10: Wyoming)

• Paleocene of United States (8: Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)

• Paleogene of Chile (1)

• Tertiary of Japan (1)

• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia), United States (29: Georgia, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, Wyoming)

Total: 137 collections including 171 occurrences

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