Excluded species. 
Exclusion of species from Cinnamomum was based on the use of combination of 
characters that currently are considered to recognize genera in ite Lauraceae. Thus, most species 
included in this list fit better in Ocotea, namely by the presence of pinninerved leaves, tepals 
spreading at anthesis, staminodia stipitiform, and tepals not persistent in fruit. Several species 
formerly in Cinnamomum have been already moved to Ocotea, and the proper combinations 
under this genus are cited for those taxa. 
Except for a couple of new names presented here where no taxonomical ambiguity exists, 
there are a number of species for which no new combinations have been made. The reason to do 
this is for the sake of not increasing the number of synonyms in the family, for there was no time 
nor appropiate herbarium material to define safely the correct names of those species. 
Few excluded species belong to Nectandra or Persea. While the species included in the 
former genus do not have problem to be placed in it (for the presence of papillose tepals and/or 
stamens, and anther cells arrenged in an arch), the species included in Persea do not fit perfectly 
there, for they have tepals about the same size, persistent in the fruit, and a narrow hypanthium 
that do not broaden out with the growing fruit (not known in Persea areolatocostae). 
The presence of only two celled stamens, and other floral and vegetative characters do 
leave no doubt of the inclusion of two species in Aiouea. 
Cinnamomum acutatum Kostermans, Reinwardtia 6: 20. 1961. = Phoebe acuminatissima 
Lundell, Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 6: 19. 1941. Type. Mexico. Chiapas: Mt. Ovando. 
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