Abdominea

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Magnoliids
Ordo: Laurales

Familia: Lauraceae
Tribus: Laureae
Genus: Cinnamomum
Sectiones: C. sect. Camphora – C. sect. Cinnamomum
Species:
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a

C. agasthyamalayanum – C. alibertii – C. altissimum – C. anacardium – C. andersonii – C. angustifolium – C. angustitepalum – C. appelianum – C. archboldianum – C. arfakense – C. aromaticum – C. asomicum – C. assamicum – C. aubletii – C. aureofulvum – C. auricolor – C. austrosinense – C. austroyunnanense
b

C. baileyanum – C. balansae – C. bamoense – C. beccarii – C. bejolghota – C. bhamoensis – C. bhaskarii – C. birmanicum – C. bishnupadae – C. blandfordii – C. blumei – C. bodinieri – C. bokorense – C. bonii – C. brachythyrsum – C. burmanni
c

C. calciphilum – C. cambodianum – C. camphora – C. capparu-coronde – C. carrierei – C. caryophyllus – C. cebuense – C. celebicum – C. chago – C. champokianum – C. chantinii – C. chartophyllum – C. chemungianum – C. citriodorum – C. clemensii – C. contractum – C. cordatum – C. corneri – C. crassinervium – C. crenulicupulum – C. culitlawan – C. cupulatum – C. curvifolium – C. cuspidatum
d

C. damhaense – C. daphnoides – C. decaisnei – C. decourtilzii – C. degeneri – C. deschampsii – C. domorphandrum – C. doederleinii – C. dominii – C. dubium – C. dulcis – C. durifolium – C. × durifruticeticola
e

C. ebaloi – C. ellipticifolium – C. englerianum – C. eugenoliferum
f

C. filipedicellatum – C. fitianum – C. foveolatum – C. frodinii
g

C. gamblei – C. gaudichaudii – C. glanduliferum – C. glaucescens – C. glauciphyllum – C. goaense – C. gracillimum – C. grandiflorum
h

C. helferi – C. heyneanum – C. hkinlumense – C. hookeri
i

C. ilicioides – C. impressinervium – C. inconspicuum – C. iners – C. insularimontanum
j

C. javanicum – C. jensenianum
k

C. kalabaricum – C. kami – C. keralaense – C. kerangas – C. kerrii – C. kinabaluense – C. kingdon-wardii – C. kotoense – C. kunstleri – C. kwangtungense
l

C. lanaoense – C. lanuginosum – C. laubatii – C. lawang – C. ledermannii – C. liangii – C. ligneum – C. lineatum – C. lioui – C. litseifolium – C. loheri – C. lohitensis – C. longipaniculatum – C. longipedicellatum – C. longipetiolatum – C. loureiroi – C. lucens
m

C. mabberleyi – C. macrocarpum – C. macrophyllum – C. magnificum – C. mairei – C. malabatrum – C. melastomaceum – C. melliodorum – C. mendozae – C. mercadoi – C. micranthum – C. microphyllum – C. migao – C. mohananense – C. mollifolium – C. mollissimum – C. myrianthum
n

C. nalingway – C. nanophyllum – C. neesii – C. nilagiricum – C. novae-britanniae
ç
o

C. oblongum – C. obscurum – C. oliveri – C. osmophloeum – C. ovalauense – C. ovalifolium
p

C. pachypes – C. pachyphyllum – C. pallidum – C. panayense – C. paraneuron – C. parthenoxylon – C. pedatinervium – C. pedunculatum – C. pendulum – C. percoriaceum – C. perglabrum – C. perrottetii – C. petiolatum – C. philippinense – C. pilosum – C. pingbienense – C. piniodorum – C. pittosporoides – C. platyphyllum – C. podagricum – C. polderi – C. politum – C. polyadelphum – C. porphyrium – C. porphyrospermum – C. propinquum – C. pseudopedunculatum – C. puberulum
q

C. quadrangulum
r

C. racemosum – C. reticulatum – C. reticulifolium – C. rhynchophyllum – C. rigidifolium – C. rigidissimum – C. rigidum – C. riparium – C. rivulorum – C. rosiflorum – C. rosselianum – C. rubrinervium – C. rufotomentosum – C. rumphii – C. rupestre
s

C. sancti-caroli – C. sandkuhlii – C. sanjappae – C. saxatile – C. sclarinervium – C. scortechinii – C. selangorense – C. septentrionale – C. sericans – C. sessilifolium – C. siamense – C. sieboldii – C. sinharajaense – C. sintoc – C. sleumeri – C. solomonense – C. splendens – C. spurium – C. subaveniopsis – C. subavenium – C. sublanuginosum – C. subsericeum – C. subtetrapterum – C. sulavesianum – C. sulphuratum – C. sumatranum – C. suvrae – C. szechuanense
t

C. tahijanum – C. talawaense – C. tamala – C. tavoyanum – C. tazia – C. tenuifolium – C. tenuipile – C. tetragonum – C. travancoricum – C. trichophyllum – C. trinervatum – C. trintaense – C. tsangii – C. tsoi
u

C. utile
v

C. vacciniifolium – C. validinerve – C. verum – C. villosulum – C. vimineum – C. virens – C. vitiense
w

C. walaiwarense – C. wightii – C. wilsonii – C. woulfei
x

C. xanthoneurum
y

C. yabunikkei

Paleospecies: †C. polymorphoides
Source(s) of checklist:
Unresolved names

C. aggregatum

Name

Cinnamomum Schaeff., Bot. Exped. 74. (1760) nom. cons.

Type species: Cinnamomum verum J.Presl

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Camphora Fabr., Enum. 218. (1759), nom. rej.
Type species: Camphora officinarum Nees
Cecidodaphne Nees, in Wall., Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 61, 70. (1831)
Type species: Cecidodaphne glaucescens Nees
Parthenoxylon Blume, Mus. Bot. 1: 322. (1851)
Type species: Parthenoxylon porrectum (Roxb.) Blume
Temmodaphne Kosterm. Bot. Tidsskr. 67: 319. (1973)
Type species: Temmodaphne thailandica Kosterm. Bot. Tidsskr. 67: 319. (1973)
Camphorina Noronha, Verh. Batav. Gen. 5: ed. I. Art. IV. 1 (1790)
Septina Noronha, Verh. Batav. Gen. 5: ed. I. Art. IV. 3 (1790)

References

Schäffer, J.C. 1760. Botanica expeditior 74.

Additional references

Huang, J.F., Li, L., van der Werff, H., Li, H.W., Rohwer, J.G., Crayn, D.M., Meng, H.H., van der Merwe, M., Conran, J.G. & Li, J. 2016. Origins and evolution of cinnamon and camphor: A phylogenetic and historical biogeographical analysis of the Cinnamomum group (Lauraceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 96: 33–44. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.12.007 Reference page.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2016. Cinnamomum in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2016 Oct. 5. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Cinnamomum. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 5 2016. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2016. Cinnamomum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 5 Oct. 2016.

Vernacular names
English: Camphor, Cinnamon
eesti: Kaneelipuu
suomi: Kanelipuut
Nordfriisk: Kaneelen
日本語: ニッケイ属
русский: Коричник
Türkçe: Tarçın

Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen aromatic trees and shrubs belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. The species of Cinnamomum have aromatic oils in their leaves and bark. The genus contains approximately 250 species, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania/Australasia. The genus includes a great number of economically important trees used to produce the spice of cinnamon.
Habitat

This genus is present in the Himalayas and other mountain areas and is present in tropical and subtropical montane rainforests, in the weed-tree forests, in valleys, and mixed forests of coniferous and deciduous broad-leaved trees, from southern China, India, and Southeast Asia. Some species, such as Cinnamomum camphora, tolerate drought.
Characteristics

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All species tested so far are diploid, with the total number of chromosomes being 24.[1] This Lauraceae genus comprises approximately 250 trees and shrubs and most are aromatic. Some trees produce sprouts. The thick, leathery leaves are dark green, lauroid type. Laurophyll or lauroid leaves are characterized by a generous layer of wax, making them glossy in appearance, and narrow, pointed oval in shape with an 'apical mucro', or 'drip tip', which permits the leaves to shed water despite the humidity, allowing respiration from plant.

Mostly, the plants present a distinct odor. Their alternate leaves are ovate-elliptic, with margins entire or occasionally repand, with acute apices and broadly cuneate to subrounded bases. Upper leaf surfaces are shiny green to yellowish-green, while the undersides are opaque and lighter in color. Mature leaves are dark green. Young leaves are reddish brown to yellowish-red. The leaves are glabrous on both surfaces or sparsely puberulent beneath only when young; the leaves are mostly triplinerved or sometimes inconspicuously five-nerved, with conspicuous midrib on both surfaces. The axils of lateral nerves and veins are conspicuously bullate above and dome-shaped. Terminal buds are perulate.

The axillary panicle is 3.5–7 cm long. It is a genus of monoecious species, with hermaphrodite flowers, greenish white, white to yellow are glabrous or downy and pale to yellowish brown. Mostly the flowers are small. The perianth is glabrous or puberulent outside and densely pubescent inside. The purplish-black fruit is an ovate, ellipsoidal or subglobose drupe. The perianth-cup in fruit is cupuliform.

Cinnamomum parthenoxylon and Cinnamomum camphora are large evergreen trees that can grow to 30 m in height with trunks 3 m in diameter, with broadly ovate crowns. Terminal buds are broadly ovoid or globular, and covered with sericeous scales. Bark is yellowish-brown with irregular vertical splits. Branches are light brown, cylindrical, and glabrous.
Cinnamomum tree in a 10th-century Arabic manuscript
Bark of Cinnamomum camphora
Drawing of Cinnamomum iners Reinwardt. ex Blume by J.C.P. Arckenhausen, ~1835
Cinnamomum kotoense inflorescence

The inner bark of several species is used to make the spice cinnamon. Other notable species are C. tamala, used as the herb malabathrum (also called tejpat and Indian bay leaf), and C. camphora, from which camphor is produced.
Accepted species

About 250 species are accepted,[2] including several commercially important ones.

A molecular study found that species from the tropical Americas classed in Cinnamomum were not closely related to the Paleotropical species, and have been reclassified with related species in genus Aiouea.[3]

Cinnamomum agasthyamalayanum
Cinnamomum alibertii
Cinnamomum alternifolium
Cinnamomum altissimum
Cinnamomum anacardium
Cinnamomum andersonii
Cinnamomum angustifolium
Cinnamomum angustitepalum
Cinnamomum appelianum
Cinnamomum archboldianum
Cinnamomum arfakense
Cinnamomum aromaticum – Chinese cinnamon or cassia (C. cassia)
Cinnamomum asomicum
Cinnamomum assamicum
Cinnamomum aubletii
Cinnamomum aureofulvum
Cinnamomum auricolor
Cinnamomum austrosinense
Cinnamomum austroyunnanense'
Cinnamomum baileyanum
Cinnamomum baillonii
Cinnamomum balansae
Cinnamomum bamoense
Cinnamomum beccarii
Cinnamomum bejolghota
Cinnamomum bhamoensis
Cinnamomum bhaskarii
Cinnamomum birmanicum
Cinnamomum bishnupadae
Cinnamomum blandfordii
Cinnamomum blumei
Cinnamomum bokorense
Cinnamomum bonii
Cinnamomum brachythyrsum
Cinnamomum burmanni – Indonesian cinnamon
Cinnamomum calciphilum
Cinnamomum cambodianum
Cinnamomum capparu-coronde
Cinnamomum carrierei
Cinnamomum caryophyllus
Cinnamomum cebuense
Cinnamomum celebicum
Cinnamomum chago
Cinnamomum champokianum
Cinnamomum chantinii
Cinnamomum chemungianum
Cinnamomum citriodorum – Malabar cinnamon
Cinnamomum clemensii
Cinnamomum contractum
Cinnamomum cordatum
Cinnamomum corneri
Cinnamomum crassinervium
Cinnamomum crenulicupulum
Cinnamomum culilawan
Cinnamomum cupulatum
Cinnamomum curvifolium
Cinnamomum cuspidatum
Cinnamomum damhaense
Cinnamomum daphnoides
Cinnamomum decaisnei
Cinnamomum decourtilzill
Cinnamomum degeneri
Cinnamomum deschampsii
Cinnamomum dimorphandrum
Cinnamomum doederleinii
Cinnamomum dominii
Cinnamomum dubium – Wild cinnamon
Cinnamomum durifolium
Cinnamomum x durifruticeticola
Cinnamomum eboaloi
Cinnamomum ellipticifolium
Cinnamomum englerianum
Cinnamomum eugenoliferum
Cinnamomum filipedicellatum
Cinnamomum fitianum
Cinnamomum gamblei
Cinnamomum gaudichaudii
Cinnamomum glaucescens
Cinnamomum glauciphyllum
Cinnamomum goaense
Cinnamomum gracillimum
Cinnamomum helferi
Cinnamomum heyneanum
Cinnamomum hkinlumense
Cinnamomum hookeri
Cinnamomum impressinervium
Cinnamomum inconspicuum
Cinnamomum iners
Cinnamomum insularimontanum
Cinnamomum javanicum
Cinnamomum jensenianum
Cinnamomum kalbaricum
Cinnamomum kami
Cinnamomum kanehirae – stout camphor tree; endemic to Taiwan
Cinnamomum keralaense
Cinnamomum kerangas
Cinnamomum kerrii
Cinnamomum kinabaluense
Cinnamomum kingdon-wardii
Cinnamomum kotoense
Cinnamomum kunstleri
Cinnamomum kwangtungense
Cinnamomum lanaoeense
Cinnamomum lanuginosum
Cinnamomum laubatii
Cinnamomum lawang
Cinnamomum ledermannii
Cinnamomum liangii
Cinnamomum ligneum
Cinnamomum lineatum
Cinnamomum lioui
Cinnamomum litsaeifolium
Cinnamomum loheri
Cinnamomum lohitensis
Cinnamomum longipedicellatum
Cinnamomum loureiroi – Saigon cinnamon
Cinnamomum lucens
Cinnamomum mabberleyi
Cinnamomum macrocarpum
Cinnamomum macrophyllum
Cinnamomum magnificum
Cinnamomum mairei
Cinnamomum malabatrum
Cinnamomum melastomaceum
Cinnamomum melliodorum
Cinnamomum mendozae
Cinnamomum mercadoi S.Vidal – kalingag tree
Cinnamomum microphyllum
Cinnamomum mohanense
Cinnamomum mollissiumum
Cinnamomum myrianthum
Cinnamomum nalingway
Cinnamomum nanophyllum
Cinnamomum neesii
Cinnamomum nilagricum
Cinnamomum novae-britanniae
Cinnamomum oblongum
Cinnamomum obscurum
Cinnamomum oliveri
Cinnamomum osmophloeum – pseudocinnamomum
Cinnamomum ovalifolium
Cinnamomum pachypes
Cinnamomum pachyphyllum
Cinnamomum paiei
Cinnamomum pallidum
Cinnamomum panayense
Cinnamomum paraneuron
Cinnamomum pedatinervium
Cinnamomum pendulum
Cinnamomum percoriaceum
Cinnamomum perglabrum
Cinnamomum perrottetii
Cinnamomum pilosum
Cinnamomum pingbienense
Cinnamomum piniodorum
Cinnamomum pittosporoides
Cinnamomum podagricum
Cinnamomum polderi
Cinnamomum politum
Cinnamomum polyadelphium
Cinnamomum porphyrospermum
Cinnamomum propinquum
Cinnamomum pseudopedunculatum
Cinnamomum puberulum
Cinnamomum racemosum
Cinnamomum reticulatum
Cinnamomum rhynchophyllum
Cinnamomum rigidissimum
Cinnamomum rigidum
Cinnamomum riparium
Cinnamomum rivulorum
Cinnamomum rosiflorum
Cinnamomum rosselianum
Cinnamomum rumphii
Cinnamomum rupestre
Cinnamomum sancti-caroli
Cinnamomum sandkuhlii
Cinnamomum sanjappae
Cinnamomum saxatile
Cinnamomum scalarinervium
Cinnamomum scortechinii
Cinnamomum selangorense
Cinnamomum sericans
Cinnamomum sessilifolium
Cinnamomum siamense
Cinnamomum sieboldii
Cinnamomum sinharajaense
Cinnamomum sintoc Blume
Cinnamomum sleumeri
Cinnamomum solomonense
Cinnamomum splendens
Cinnamomum spurium
Cinnamomum subaveniopsis
Cinnamomum sublanuginosum
Cinnamomum subsericeum
Cinnamomum subtetrapterum
Cinnamomum sulavesianum
Cinnamomum sulphuratum
Cinnamomum sumatranum
Cinnamomum suvrae
Cinnamomum szechuanense
Cinnamomum tahijanum
Cinnamomum talawaense
Cinnamomum tamala – tejpat, Indian bay leaf, or malabathrum
Cinnamomum tavoyanum
Cinnamomum tazia
Cinnamomum tenuifolium – Japanese cinnamon
Cinnamomum tetragonum
Cinnamomum travancoricum
Cinnamomum trichophyllum
Cinnamomum trinervatum
Cinnamomum tsangii
Cinnamomum utile
Cinnamomum vaccinifolium
Cinnamomum validinerve
Cinnamomum verum – cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon, or true cinnamon
Cinnamomum villosulum
Cinnamomum vimineum
Cinnamomum virens – red-barked sassafras, eastern Australia
Cinnamomum vitiense
Cinnamomum walaiwarense
Cinnamomum wightii
Cinnamomum wilsonii
Cinnamomum woulfei
Cinnamomum xanthoneurum
Cinnamomum yabunikkei

Species transferred to Camphora:[4]

Camphora bodinieri ≡ Cinnamomum bodinieri
Camphora brachythyrsa ≡ Cinnamomum brachythyrsum
Camphora chartophylla ≡ Cinnamomum chartophyllum
Camphora foveolata ≡ Cinnamomum foveolatum
Camphora glandulifera ≡ Cinnamomum glanduliferum
Camphora illicioides ≡ Cinnamomum ilicioides
Camphora longepaniculata ≡ Cinnamomum longepaniculatum
Camphora micrantha ≡ Cinnamomum micranthum
Camphora migao ≡ Cinnamomum migao
Camphora mollifolia ≡ Cinnamomum mollifolium
Camphora officinarum ≡ Cinnamomum camphora
Camphora parthenoxylon ≡ Cinnamomum parthenoxylon
Camphora philippinensis ≡ Cinnamomum philippinense
Camphora platyphylla ≡ Cinnamomum platyphyllum
Camphora purpurea ≡ Cinnamomum purpureum
Camphora rufotomentosa ≡ Cinnamomum rufomentosum
Camphora septentrionalis ≡ Cinnamomum septentrionale
Camphora tenuipilis ≡ Cinnamomum tenuipile

References
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