Cinnamomum 
Phoebe Camphora Cinnamomum Neotrop 1 Neotrop 2 
Phyllotaxy | alternate alternate opposite alternate alternate 
Shoot buds | not perulate perulate not perulate not perulate not perulate 
Domatia absent present absent mostly present | absent 
Venation pinninerved mostly mostly mostly pinninerved 
pattern pinninerved triplinerved triplinerved 
Flower sex | hermaphrodite | hermaphrodite | hermaphrodite | hermaphrodite | hermaphrodite 
Fertile nine nine nine nine nine 
stamens 
Staminodia | well developed | well developed | well developed | well developed | well developed 
Cupule in not present present present present present 
fruit 
Tepals in persistent not or partially | at least partially | entirely entirely 
fruit persistent persistent persistent to persistent to 
deciduous deciduous 
Pedicel in not turbinate turbinate turbinate turbinate turbinate 
fruit 
Table 2. 
Comparative relation of diagnostic characters of the genera Phoebe and Cinnamomum sections Camphora, 
Cinnamomum, and the two groups of species from the neotropics. 
