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Dodecadenia is a botanical genus of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae. It contains a single species, Dodecadenia grandiflora. It native to the Himalayas, northeastern India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and south-central China. It is present in tropical and subtropical montane rainforest, laurel forest, in the weed-tree forests in valleys, mixed forests of coniferous and deciduous broad-leaved trees, Tsuga forests; 2,000–2,600 metres (6,600–8,500 ft) in China in provinces of Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, and countries of Bhutan, India, Myanmar, and Nepal.
The genus was described by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck and published in Plant Asiaticae Rariores 2: 63 in 1831. The type species is Dodecadenia grandiflora Nees.
The genus was more extended in the Tertiary. The ecological requirements of the genus, are those of fog moisture precipitating almost continuously in a natural habitat cloud-covered for much of the year. These genus species are found in tropical forests, subtropical temperate evergreen, montane evergreen forests, which is a type of rainforest or Cloud Forest.
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