anther cells. An extreme case of variation for these characters can be found in a species that | 
decided to place in a new genus I named Mocinnodaphne. In this taxon, floral features are like in 
Licaria (only the three innermost stamens are fertile, with two sporangia), but fruit and foliar 
characters resemble Cinnamomum (persistent tepals in fruit, triplinerved leaves with domatia). It 
is Clear, from this case, that parallel evolution of these traits is rather common among several 
taxa in the Lauraceae. Although I considered Mocinnodaphne related with Cinnamomum (and 
some other genera like Nectandra and Ocotea), in the cladistic analyses it never came close to 
any of these genera, but close to Licaria (see below). 
In the end, however, if to the core of flower and fruit characters, the condition of 
triplinerved to subtriplinerved leaves with domatia is added, most of the neotropical species of 
Cinnamomum form a very distinctive taxon. This situation implies these species probably 
constitute a real phylogenetic line within the Lauraceae. Support for this statement was found in 
the results of the phylogenetic analysis. 
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