laurels, spicebushes, and allies
Laurales
The Laurales are an order of flowering plants. They are magnoliids, related to the Magnoliales.
The order includes about 2500–2800 species from 85 to 90 genera, which comprise seven families of trees and shrubs. Most of the species are tropical and subtropical, though a few genera reach the temperate zone. The best known species in this order are those of the Lauraceae (for example bay laurel, cinnamon, avocado, and Sassafras), and the ornamental shrub Calycanthus of the Calycanthaceae.
7 branches of this order, most-observed first
laurels
familyLauraceae
spicebush family
familyCalycanthaceae
monimia family
familyMonimiaceae
southern sassafras family
familyAtherospermataceae
siparuna family
familySiparunaceae
hernandia family
familyHernandiaceae
gomortega family
familyGomortegaceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48808.