《中国植物志》|| 樟科 LAURACEAE ||木姜子亚族 Subtrib. litseineae Kosterm. ||木姜子属 Litsea Lam.

15.木姜子属——Litsea Lam.
Lam. Encycl. Meth. Bot. 3: 574. 1793, nom. Cons., Meissn. in DC. Prodr. 15 (1): 177 et 220. 1864 “tsaea”; Lec. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat, Paris, 5e Ser: 5: 82. 1913; Liou Ho,Laur. Chine et Indoch. 162-200. 1932 et 1934; Allen in Ann.Miss. Bot. Gard. 25: 362-398. 1938.——Tetranthera Jacquin, Hort. Schoenbrun. 1: 59, f. 113. 1797.——Pseudolitsea Yang in Journ. West China Bora. Res. Soc. 15 Ser. B: 85. 1945.
落叶或常绿，乔木或灌木。叶互生，很少对生或轮生，羽状脉。花单性，雌雄异株；伞 形花序或为伞形花序式的聚伞花序或圆锥花序，单生或簇生于叶腋；苞片4-6，交互对 生，开花时尚宿存，迟落，花被筒长或短；裂片通常6，排成2轮，每轮3片，相等或不等， 早落，很少缺或8；雄花：能育雄蕊9或12，很少较多，每轮3个，外2轮通常无腺体，第 3轮和最内轮若存在时两侧有腺体2枚；花药4室，内向瓣裂；退化雌蕊有或无；雌花：退 化雄蕊与雄花中的雄蕊数目同；子房上位，花柱显著。果着生于多少增大的浅盘状或深杯 状果托（即花被筒）上，也有花被筒在结果时不增大，故无盘状或杯状果托。
约200种（Kostermans认为有近400种），除不见于非洲与欧洲外，分布于亚洲热 带和亚热带，以至北美和亚热带的南美洲。我国约有72种18变种和3变型，是我国樟科 中种类较多、分布较广的属之一，自广东海南岛北纬18°，至长江以北的河南省北纬34° 均有分布，但主产南方和西南温暖地区，为该地区森林中习见的树木。
本属木材为散孔材，心边材区别不明显，纹理直，结构中至细，木质轻柔至中等，干燥 后开裂或少开裂，有些种类木材可供家具及建筑等用材。又本属一些种的果实、枝、叶均 可提取芳香油，为工业上的重要原料。

《云南植物志》|| 樟科 Lauraceae ||樟科 Lauraceae ||木姜子属 Litsea Lam.

3．木姜子属 Litsea Lam.
落叶或常绿的乔木或灌木。叶互生，稀对生或近轮生，羽状脉。花单性，雌雄异株；花序伞形或为伞形花序式的聚伞花序或圆锥花序，单生或簇生于叶腋；总苞片4—6，交互对生，开花时尚宿存，迟落。花被筒长或短，花被片通常6，排成2轮，每轮3片，相等或不相等，早落，很少缺或8；雄花：能育雄蕊9或12，很少较多，每轮3个，第一、二轮通常无腺体，第三轮和最内轮若存在时两侧各有1枚腺体；花药4室，内向瓣裂；退化雄蕊有或无；雌花：退化雄蕊与雄花中的雄蕊数目相同；子房上位，花柱显著，柱头盾状。果为浆果状核果，着生于多少增大的浅盘状或深杯状果托（花被筒）上，也有些种类花被筒结果时不增大，故无盘状或杯状果托。
约200种，分布于亚洲热带和亚热带，以至北美和亚热带的南美洲。我国有64种。云南有41种7变种1变型。
本属木材为散孔材，心边材区别不明显，纹理直，结构中至细，材质轻柔至中等，干后开裂或少开裂，有些种类木材可供作家具及建筑等用材。又本属的一些种（如山鸡椒）的果实、枝、叶均可提取芳香油，为工业上的重要原料，不少种的种子富含脂肪，可提取作工业用油脂。

《Flora of North America》|| Lauraceae || || Litsea

2. Litsea Lamarck, Encycl. 3: 574. 1792.

[Litsé, the Chinese name for the plant]

Henk van der Werff

Shrubs [or trees] , deciduous [or evergreen]. Leaves alternate, not aromatic. Leaf blade pinnately veined, rarely with 3 primary veins, leathery; surfaces glabrous or variously pubescent; domatia absent. Inflorescences appearing with or before new leaves, axillary, pseudoumbels, subtended by decussate bracts. Flowers unisexual, staminate and pistillate on different plants; tepals deciduous, yellow, green, or white, equal, glabrous. Staminate flowers: stamens 9 (or 12); anthers 4-locular, 4-valved, introrse. Pistillate flowers: staminodes 9 (or 12); ovary globose. Drupe red, globose, seated in small, single-rimmed cupule.

Species ca. 400 (1 in the flora): North America, Mexico, Central America, mostly in Asia.

Mexico has four species of Litsea , one of which extends to Costa Rica in Central America. Litsea merits revision and, as accepted here, it is probably polyphyletic. It is very similar to Lindera and best recognized by its 4-locular anthers (2-locular in Lindera ).

《Flora of China》|| Lauraceae || ||木姜子属 Litsea

3. Litsea Lamarck, Encycl. 3: 574. 1792.

木姜子属 mu jiang zi shu

Authors: Puhua Huang, Jie Li, Xi-wen Li & Henk van der Werff

Hexanthus Loureiro; Iozoste Nees; Malapoënna Adanson; Pseudolitsea Yen C. Yang; Tetranthera Jacquin.

Trees or shrubs, evergreen or deciduous, dioecious. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite or verticillate, pinninerved. Umbels, or umbellate cymes or panicles, solitary or clustered in leaf axils; involucral bracts 4-6, decussate, persistent at flowering. Perianth tube long or short, segments usually 6, in 2 whorls of 3 each, equal or unequal, rarely lacking or 8. Flowers unisexual. Male flowers: fertile stamens 9 or 12, rarely more, in 3 or 4 whorls of 3 each; filaments of 1st and 2nd whorls usually eglandular, of 3rd and 4th 2-glandular at base; anthers all introrse, 4-celled, cells opening by lids; rudimentary pistil present or lacking. Female flowers: staminodes as many as stamens of male flowers; ovary superior; style conspicuous. Fruit seated on perianth tube; perianth tube ± enlarged, shallowly discoid or deeply cup-shaped or unaltered at fruit.

About 200 species: mainly in tropical and subtropical Asia, a few species in Australia and from North America to subtropical South America; 74 species (47 endemic) in China.

Litsea mishmiensis J. D. Hooker (Fl. Brit. India 5: 161. 1886; see FRPS 31: 336. 1982) was described from the border region between NE India and SE Xizang.

Tetranthera floribunda Champion ex Bentham (Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5: 199. 1853) was described from Hong Kong but could not be treated here because no material was seen by the present authors.

Litsea chaffanjonii H. Léveillé (Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 12: 182. 1913) is a synonym of Symplocos stellaris Brand in the Symplocaceae (see Fl. China 15: 250. 1996), according to Lauener (Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 35: 279. 1977).

Litsea mairei H. Léveillé and L. myricopsis H. Léveillé (Cat. Pl. Yun-Nan, 150. 1916) are synonyms of Myrica nana A. Chevalier and M. esculenta Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don, respectively, in the Myricaceae (see Fl. China 4: 275-276. 1999), according to Lauener (Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 40: 505. 1983).