Machilus

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Lauraceae
Tribus: Cinnamomeae
Genus: Machilus
Species: M. attenuata – M. austroguizhouensis – M. balansae – M. bonii – M. boninensis – M. breviflora – M. calcicola – M. cavaleriei – M. chayuensis – M. chekiangensis – M. chienkweiensis – M. chinensis – M. chrysotricha – M. chuanchienensis – M. cicatricosa – M. daozhenensis – M. decursinervis – M. dinganensis – M. dumicola – M. duthiei – M. fasciculata – M. foonchewii – M. forrestii – M. fukienensis – M. gamblei – M. glabrophylla – M. glaucescens – M. glaucifolia – M. gongshanensis – M. gracillima – M. grandibracteata – M. grijsii – M. hemsleyi – M. holadena – M. ichangensis – M. japonica – M. kurzii – M. kwangtungensis – M. lenticellata – M. leptophylla – M. lichuanensis – M. litseifolia – M. lohuiensis – M. longipes – M. mangdangshanensis – M. melanophylla – M. miaoshanensis – M. microcarpa – M. microphylla – M. minkweiensis – M. minutiflora – M. minutiloba – M. montana – M. monticola – M. multinervia – M. nakao – M. nanchuanensis – M. nanmu – M. obovatifolia – M. obscurinervis – M. oculodracontis – M. odoratissimus – M. oreophila – M. ovatiloba – M. parabreviflora – M. pauhoi – M. phoenicis – M. platycarpa – M. pomifera – M. pyramidalis – M. rehderi – M. reticulata – M. rimosa – M. robusta – M. rufipes – M. salicina – M. salicoides – M. shiwandashanica – M. shweliensis – M. sichourensis – M. sichuanensis – M. submultinervia – M. sumatrana – M. tenuipilis – M. thunbergii – M. tingzhourensis – M. velutina – M. velutinoides – M. verruculosa – M. versicolora – M. viridis – M. wangchiana – M. wenshanensis – M. yunnanensis – M. zuihoensis
Name

Machilus Nees Pl. Asiat. Rar. (Wallich). ii. 70 (1831)

Type species: Machilus odoratissimus Nees Pl. Asiat. Rar. (Wallich). ii. 70 (1831)

Note: Li et al., 2011 and Rohwer et al., 2009 present strong evidence for maintaining the genus, but other authorities still accept its synonymy with Persea, for example Tropicos, 2016.
References

Nees von Esenbeck, C.D.D. 1831. Plantae Asiaticae Rariores: or, Descriptions and figures of a select number of unpublished East Indian plants. London. ii. 70
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Machilus. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 1 2016.
Li, L., Li, J., Rohwer, J.G., van der Werff, H., Wang, Z.H. & Li, H.W., 2011. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Persea group (Lauraceae) and its biogeographic implications on the evolution of tropical and subtropical Amphi-Pacific disjunctions. American Journal of Botany 98(9: 1520–1536. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1100006 Full text PDF Reference page.
Rohwer, J.G., Li, J., Rudolph, B., Schmidt, S.A., van der Werff, H. & Li, H.W. 2009. Is Persea (Lauraceae) monophyletic? Evidence from nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences. Taxon 58(4): 1153-1167. Full text PDF from ResearchGate Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2016. Machilus in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2016 Oct. 1. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2016. Machilus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2016 Oct. 1.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Machilus in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12.

Machilus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae. It is found in temperate, subtropical, and tropical forest, occurring in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,, Indonesia, Borneo, and the Philippines. It is sometimes included in the genus Persea,[1] and currently includes about 100 species.[2]

Description
Machilus are evergreen trees or shrubs,[2] some species growing as much as 30 m tall. Their entire, pinnately veined leaves are alternately borne along the stems. Their bisexual flowers are borne in inflorescences that are usually paniculate, terminal, subterminal, or arising from near base of branchlets, with long peduncles or rarely without peduncles. Perianth tubes are short; perianth lobes 6 in 2 series, equal, subequal, or occasionally outer ones conspicuously smaller than inner ones, usually persistent, rarely deciduous. Fertile stamens 9 in 3 series, anthers 4-celled, 1st and 2nd series of stamens eglandular, anthers introrse, 3rd series of stamens glandular, anthers extrorse or lateral, glands stipitate to sessile. Staminodes in 4th series, sagittate. Ovary sessile; stigmas small, dish-shaped or capitate. Fruits are fleshy, globose, rarely ellipsoid or oblong, subtended at base by persistent and reflexed perianth lobes; the fruiting pedicel does not become enlarged.

Species

The genus includes the following species:[3]
Machilus yunnanensis, also known as Persea yunnanensis
Machilus obovatifolia

Machilus austroguizhouensis S.K. Lee & F.N. Wei
Machilus balansae (Airy Shaw) F.N. Wei & S.C. Tang
Machilus bonii Lecomte
Machilus boninensis Koidz.
Machilus breviflora (Benth.) Hemsl.
Machilus calcicola C.J. Qi
Machilus cambodiana Mase, Tagane & Yahara, described from Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, Cambodia[4]
Machilus cavaleriei H. Lév.
Machilus chayuensis S.K. Lee
Machilus chekiangensis S.K. Lee
Machilus chienkweiensis S.K. Lee
Machilus chinensis (Benth.) Hemsl.
Machilus chrysotricha H.W. Li
Machilus chuanchienensis S.K. Lee
Machilus cicatricosa S.K. Lee
Machilus daozhenensis Y.K. Li
Machilus decursinervis Chun
Machilus dinganensis S.K. Lee & F.N. Wei
Machilus dumicola (W.W. Sm.) H.W. Li
Machilus duthiei King
Machilus fasciculata H.W. Li
Machilus foonchewii S.K. Lee
Machilus fukienensis Hung T. Chang
Machilus gamblei King ex Hook. f.
Machilus glabrophylla J.F. Zuo
Machilus glaucescens (Nees) Wight
Machilus glaucifolia S.K. Lee & F.N. Wei
Machilus gongshanensis H.W. Li
Machilus gracillima Chun
Machilus grandibracteata S.K. Lee & F.N. Wei
Machilus grijsii Hance
Machilus hemsleyi Nakai
Machilus holadena H. Liu
Machilus ichangensis Rehder & E.H. Wilson
Machilus japonica Siebold & Zucc.
Machilus kurzii King ex Hook. f.
Machilus kwangtungensis Yen C. Yang
Machilus lenticellata S.K. Lee & F.N. Wei
Machilus leptophylla Hand.-Mazz.
Machilus lichuanensis W.C. Cheng
Machilus litseifolia S.K. Lee
Machilus lohuiensis S.K. Lee
Machilus longipes Hung T. Chang
Machilus mangdangshanensis Q.F. Zheng
Machilus melanophylla H.W. Li
Machilus miaoshanensis F.N. Wei & C.Q. Lin
Machilus microcarpa Hemsl.
Machilus minkweiensis S.K. Lee
Machilus minutiloba S.K. Lee
Machilus monticola S.K. Lee
Machilus multinervia H. Liu
Machilus nakao S.K. Lee
Machilus nanchuanensis N. Chao
Machilus nanmu (Oliv.) Hemsl.
Machilus obovatifolia (Hayata) Kaneh. & Sasaki
Machilus obscurinervis S.K. Lee
Machilus oculodracontis Chun
Machilus oreophila Hance
Machilus ovatiloba S.K. Lee
Machilus parabreviflora Hung T. Chang
Machilus pauhoi Kaneh.
Machilus phoenicis Dunn
Machilus platycarpa Chun
Machilus pomifera (Kosterm.) S.K. Lee
Machilus pyramidalis H.W. Li
Machilus rehderi C.K. Allen
Machilus reticulata K.M. Lan
Machilus rimosa (Blume) Blume
Machilus robusta W.W. Sm.
Machilus rufipes H.W. Li
Machilus salicina Hance
Machilus salicoides S.K. Lee
Machilus seimensis Mase, Tagane & Yahara, described from Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, Cambodia[4]
Machilus shiwandashanica Hung T. Chang
Machilus shweliensis W.W. Sm.
Machilus sichourensis H.W. Li
Machilus sichuanensis N. Chao
Machilus submultinervia Y.K. Li
Machilus sumatrana (Kosterm.) F.N. Wei & S.C. Tang
Machilus tenuipilis H.W. Li
Machilus thunbergii Siebold & Zucc.
Machilus tingzhourensis M.M. Lin, T.F. Que & S.Q. Zheng
Machilus velutina Champ. ex Benth.
Machilus velutinoides S.K. Lee & F.N. Wei
Machilus verruculosa H.W. Li
Machilus versicolora S.K. Lee & F.N. Wei
Machilus viridis Hand.-Mazz.
Machilus wangchiana Chun
Machilus wenshanensis H.W. Li
Machilus yunnanensis Lecomte
Machilus zuihoensis Hayata

References

"Tropicos.org".
Shugang Li, Xi-wen Li, Jie Li, Puhua Huang, Fa-Nan Wei, Hongbin Cui, and Henk van der Werff. "Machilus Rumphius ex Nees in Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 61, 70. 1831". Flora of China.
"The Plant List".
Mase, K., Tagane, S., Chhang, P., & Yahara, T. (2020). A Taxonomic Study of Machilus (Lauraceae) in Cambodia based on DNA Barcodes and Morphological Observations. Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica, 71(2), 79–101.