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Cinnadenia is a flowering plant genus belonging to the family Lauraceae. They are present in low and mountain cloud forests in Southeast Asia.
The genus was described originally from Vietnam by André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans, and published in 1973. The type species is Cinnadenia paniculata.
They grow in evergreen tropical forests. Species in less humid environment are smaller or less robust, with less abundant and thinner foliage and have oleifera cells that give trees a more fragrant aroma. It is present in the Himalayas Mountain cloud forest in Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar, and Vietnam. They grow also in evergreen lowlands tropical laurel forests. They do not form large stands, but rather small groups of trees with a density of up to one individual per five hectares.
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