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Litsea elongata

Litsea elongata
Photo: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, CC0
Family
Lauraceae (Laurel family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Himalaya to S. China and N. Indo-China
Climate
wet tropical

About

Litsea elongata is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae. It was described in 1886 by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck.

Where it grows

It is native to the wet tropical biome of India (Assam), China (including Hainan), Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, and Vietnam. It grows in forests and along roadsides, at altitudes of 500–2,500 metres (1,600–8,200 ft). The species sometimes grows on limestone.

Other Litsea plants

Litsea accedens · Litsea auriculata · Brown Bolly Gum · Litsea beddomei · Litsea bennettii · Round-leaved Bollywood · Litsea calicaris · Litsea claviflora · Bollywood · Litsea · Litsea curtisii · Litsea dilleniifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Litsea elongata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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