Beilschmiedia
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Beilschmiedia is a genus of tree
s and shrub
s in family Lauraceae
. Most of its species grow in tropical climate
s, but a few of them are native to temperate regions, and they are widespread in tropical Asia
, Africa
, Madagascar
, Australia
, New Zealand
, North America
, Central America
, the Caribbean
, and South America
as south as Chile
.
The best-known species in Europe
and the United States
are the Chilean B. berteroana
and B. miersii
because of their frost tolerance. Seeds of B. bancroftii were used as a source of food by Australian Aborigines
. Timbers of some species are very valuable.
Most of species grow in tropical climate
s but a few of them are native to temperate regions. They are widespread in tropical Africa
, Asia
, Southeast Asia
, Australia
, New Zealand
, Central America
, the Caribbean
and South America
.
Timbers of some species are very valuable.
, the Beilschmiedia family, are aromatic evergreen
trees or shrubs. Many botanical species are having similar foliage to the Lauraceae due to convergent evolution. Those plants are adapted to high rainfall and humidity. The patterns of speciation in the Lauraceae
family, indicate that since the onset of aridification on the continents 15 million years ago, rainforest species diversified. One of the products of aridification is the isolation of populations and this likely caused the increase in the rate of speciation as found in the Lauraceae. This genus has species adapted to the laurel forest
habitat, so common in the Lauraceae and species adapted to a more Mediterranean-type climate with a dry season with lower rainfall. The morphology of sclerophyllous species is divergent from other humid tropical climate species of the genus. The greatest diversity of species and a greater presence of the genus is given in Cloud forest
and tropical rainforest in Asia
and Southeast Asia
.
The genus Beilschmiedia is present in a greater climatic distribution area that other genera of Lauraceae, Beilschmiedia grows well in moist, well drained ground, and tolerate a variety of soil types, attained a maximun in tropical and wetter areas of distribution, but its pattern of speciation is resulting in some cases from the product of aridification of the habitat. There are available to some Beilschmiedia species more drier conditions that are adapted to, than the typical lauraceae. Some endangered relict
species are living in temperate areas and are distributed in Mediterranean climate, and tropical and subtropical lowland forests and montane rainforest.
Beilschmiedia genus responded to favourable climatic periods and expanded across the available habitat adapting also to more extreme conditions but depending on favorable soil edaphic conditions. Beilschmiedia need an annual oscillation of the temperature moderated by the proximity of the ocean and many species resist bad cold and frost.
A related vegetal community evolved millions of years ago on the supercontinent of Gondwana
, and species of this community are now found on several separate areas of the Southern Hemisphere
, including South America
, Africa
, New Zealand
, Australia
and New Caledonia
. These lauroide leaves plant communities are twofold to tropical climate and temperate climate, having the more temperate climate their origin in the named Antarctic flora
.
The genus Beilschmiedia is present in Mexico
, Venezuela
, southern Chile
and Argentina
from the Pacific Ocean to the Andes
between 38 º and 45 º latitude, where rainfall is abundant, from 1500 to 2500 mm according to locality, distributed throughout the year, but with some subhumid Mediterranean climate influence in 3–4 months in summer. The temperatures are unchanging enough and mild, with no month falling below 5 °C, and the warmest month below 22 °C.
Also is present in the eastern end of Malesia
, including New Guinea, that also has many additional elements of the Antarctic flora, including southern beech (Nothofagus
) and Eucalypt
s.
The highlands of New Guinea
and New Britain
was linked to Australia around 40 million years ago, the Indo-Australian tectonic plate
began to split apart from the ancient supercontinent
Gondwana
.
The laurifolia appears in Cape York Peninsula, mountains of the coastal strip of New South Wales in Australia
, New Guinea
, New Caledonia
, Tasmania
, and New Zealand
. This laurel forests are home to species related to those in the Valdivian laurel forests, including Southern Beech (Nothofagus
) through the connection of the Antarctic flora
.
The fruit is variable from one species to other. in some species it is a drupe large globose green, 12 cm in diameter with a tip at the apex. In other species the berry is a erect plum-like dark purple or sometimes is an erect, elliptical to ovoid drupe dark purple when ripe, and covered in a waxy bloom. Others the fruit is a black round drupe with a glaucous bloom, with a single seed inside. In The Beilschmiedia genus the dispersal of seeds is due to birds that swallow them, so the berries are shaped to attract the birds. The fruits are an important food source for birds. It contains one seed. Fruits are a favorite food of the native pigeons in New Zealand.
, (B. tawa), which has thin willow-like leaves, and the tawaroa (B. tawaroa) which is similar to tawa but has broader leaves. New Zealand pigeon is the only species which can disperse the large seeds of the taraire pass through its gut unharmed.
Chileans Beilschmiedia miersii
and Beilschmiedia berteroana
are sclerophyllous endangered trees endemics to central Chile.
The North Belloto (B.miersii) grows in coastal forest, while the South Belloto (B.berteroana) grows in sub-mountain Andean zone of the temperate deciduous forest region of central Chile.
Both forest associations are currently represented in the System of Wild Protected Areas by the government of Chile (SNASPE), they are endangered.
It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):
Tree
A tree is a perennial woody plant. It is most often defined as a woody plant that has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground on a single main stem or trunk with clear apical dominance. A minimum height specification at maturity is cited by some authors, varying from 3 m to...
s and shrub
Shrub
A shrub or bush is distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and shorter height, usually under 5–6 m tall. A large number of plants may become either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing conditions they experience...
s in family Lauraceae
Lauraceae
The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains about 55 genera and over 3500, perhaps as many as 4000, species world-wide, mostly from warm or tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and South America...
. Most of its species grow in tropical climate
Tropical climate
A tropical climate is a climate of the tropics. In the Köppen climate classification it is a non-arid climate in which all twelve months have mean temperatures above...
s, but a few of them are native to temperate regions, and they are widespread in tropical Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, Madagascar
Madagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
, Central America
Central America
Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...
, the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
, and South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
as south as Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
.
The best-known species in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
are the Chilean B. berteroana
Beilschmiedia berteroana
Beilschmiedia berteroana is a threatened evergreen tree in the family Lauraceae native to Chile: 35 to 37°S.-Description:...
and B. miersii
Beilschmiedia miersii
Beilschmiedia miersii , an evergreen tree in the Lauraceae native to central Chile from 30 to 35°S., up to 1200 meters above sea level and lives under very dry conditions....
because of their frost tolerance. Seeds of B. bancroftii were used as a source of food by Australian Aborigines
Australian Aborigines
Australian Aborigines , also called Aboriginal Australians, from the latin ab originem , are people who are indigenous to most of the Australian continentthat is, to mainland Australia and the island of Tasmania...
. Timbers of some species are very valuable.
Overview
It is a genus of about 240-250 mainly pantropical trees and shrubs. Commonly are canopy trees in lowland forests, with alternate or opposite leaves. Altitudinal range came from near sea level to 2200 m. Trees Growing in well developed rain forest, they are found also in warm or temperate forest on poorer sedimentary soils.Most of species grow in tropical climate
Tropical climate
A tropical climate is a climate of the tropics. In the Köppen climate classification it is a non-arid climate in which all twelve months have mean temperatures above...
s but a few of them are native to temperate regions. They are widespread in tropical Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, South-East Asia, South East Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, Central America
Central America
Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. When considered part of the unified continental model, it is considered a subcontinent...
, the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
and South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
.
Timbers of some species are very valuable.
Ecology
The LauraceaeLauraceae
The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains about 55 genera and over 3500, perhaps as many as 4000, species world-wide, mostly from warm or tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and South America...
, the Beilschmiedia family, are aromatic evergreen
Evergreen
In botany, an evergreen plant is a plant that has leaves in all seasons. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage during the winter or dry season.There are many different kinds of evergreen plants, both trees and shrubs...
trees or shrubs. Many botanical species are having similar foliage to the Lauraceae due to convergent evolution. Those plants are adapted to high rainfall and humidity. The patterns of speciation in the Lauraceae
Lauraceae
The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains about 55 genera and over 3500, perhaps as many as 4000, species world-wide, mostly from warm or tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and South America...
family, indicate that since the onset of aridification on the continents 15 million years ago, rainforest species diversified. One of the products of aridification is the isolation of populations and this likely caused the increase in the rate of speciation as found in the Lauraceae. This genus has species adapted to the laurel forest
Laurel forest
Laurel forest is a subtropical or mild temperate forest, found in areas with high humidity and relatively stable and mild temperatures. They are characterized by tree species with evergreen, glossy, enlongated leaves, known as laurophyll or lauroide...
habitat, so common in the Lauraceae and species adapted to a more Mediterranean-type climate with a dry season with lower rainfall. The morphology of sclerophyllous species is divergent from other humid tropical climate species of the genus. The greatest diversity of species and a greater presence of the genus is given in Cloud forest
Cloud forest
A cloud forest, also called a fog forest, is a generally tropical or subtropical evergreen montane moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level. Cloud forests often exhibit an abundance of mosses covering the ground and...
and tropical rainforest in Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
and Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia, South-East Asia, South East Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic...
.
The genus Beilschmiedia is present in a greater climatic distribution area that other genera of Lauraceae, Beilschmiedia grows well in moist, well drained ground, and tolerate a variety of soil types, attained a maximun in tropical and wetter areas of distribution, but its pattern of speciation is resulting in some cases from the product of aridification of the habitat. There are available to some Beilschmiedia species more drier conditions that are adapted to, than the typical lauraceae. Some endangered relict
Relict
A relict is a surviving remnant of a natural phenomenon.* In biology a relict is an organism that at an earlier time was abundant in a large area but now occurs at only one or a few small areas....
species are living in temperate areas and are distributed in Mediterranean climate, and tropical and subtropical lowland forests and montane rainforest.
Beilschmiedia genus responded to favourable climatic periods and expanded across the available habitat adapting also to more extreme conditions but depending on favorable soil edaphic conditions. Beilschmiedia need an annual oscillation of the temperature moderated by the proximity of the ocean and many species resist bad cold and frost.
A related vegetal community evolved millions of years ago on the supercontinent of Gondwana
Gondwana
In paleogeography, Gondwana , originally Gondwanaland, was the southernmost of two supercontinents that later became parts of the Pangaea supercontinent. It existed from approximately 510 to 180 million years ago . Gondwana is believed to have sutured between ca. 570 and 510 Mya,...
, and species of this community are now found on several separate areas of the Southern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
The Southern Hemisphere is the part of Earth that lies south of the equator. The word hemisphere literally means 'half ball' or "half sphere"...
, including South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and New Caledonia
New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
. These lauroide leaves plant communities are twofold to tropical climate and temperate climate, having the more temperate climate their origin in the named Antarctic flora
Antarctic flora
The Antarctic flora is a distinct community of vascular plants which evolved millions of years ago on the supercontinent of Gondwana, and is now found on several separate areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including southern South America, southernmost Africa, New Zealand, Australia and New Caledonia...
.
The genus Beilschmiedia is present in Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
, Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
, southern Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
and Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
from the Pacific Ocean to the Andes
Andes
The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America. This range is about long, about to wide , and of an average height of about .Along its length, the Andes is split into several ranges, which are separated...
between 38 º and 45 º latitude, where rainfall is abundant, from 1500 to 2500 mm according to locality, distributed throughout the year, but with some subhumid Mediterranean climate influence in 3–4 months in summer. The temperatures are unchanging enough and mild, with no month falling below 5 °C, and the warmest month below 22 °C.
Also is present in the eastern end of Malesia
Malesia
Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the boundaries of the Indomalaya ecozone and Australasia ecozone, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom.-Floristic province:...
, including New Guinea, that also has many additional elements of the Antarctic flora, including southern beech (Nothofagus
Nothofagus
Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 35 species of trees and shrubs native to the temperate oceanic to tropical Southern Hemisphere in southern South America and Australasia...
) and Eucalypt
Eucalypt
Eucalypts are woody plants belonging to three closely related genera:Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Angophora.In 1995 new evidence, largely genetic, indicated that some prominent Eucalyptus species were actually more closely related to Angophora than to the other eucalypts; they were split off into the...
s.
The highlands of New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
and New Britain
New Britain
New Britain, or Niu Briten, is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from the island of New Guinea by the Dampier and Vitiaz Straits and from New Ireland by St. George's Channel...
was linked to Australia around 40 million years ago, the Indo-Australian tectonic plate
Indo-Australian Plate
The Indo-Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and surrounding ocean, and extends northwest to include the Indian subcontinent and adjacent waters...
began to split apart from the ancient supercontinent
Supercontinent
In geology, a supercontinent is a landmass comprising more than one continental core, or craton. The assembly of cratons and accreted terranes that form Eurasia qualifies as a supercontinent today.-History:...
Gondwana
Gondwana
In paleogeography, Gondwana , originally Gondwanaland, was the southernmost of two supercontinents that later became parts of the Pangaea supercontinent. It existed from approximately 510 to 180 million years ago . Gondwana is believed to have sutured between ca. 570 and 510 Mya,...
.
The laurifolia appears in Cape York Peninsula, mountains of the coastal strip of New South Wales in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
, New Caledonia
New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
, Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
, and New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. This laurel forests are home to species related to those in the Valdivian laurel forests, including Southern Beech (Nothofagus
Nothofagus
Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 35 species of trees and shrubs native to the temperate oceanic to tropical Southern Hemisphere in southern South America and Australasia...
) through the connection of the Antarctic flora
Antarctic flora
The Antarctic flora is a distinct community of vascular plants which evolved millions of years ago on the supercontinent of Gondwana, and is now found on several separate areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including southern South America, southernmost Africa, New Zealand, Australia and New Caledonia...
.
Description
Frequently the bark is pale to dark brown, smooth or coarse and they are having fine reddish brown hairs densely covering the branchlets, and the young leaves reddish. The dark green leaves are alternate, leathery. Sometimes broad, other small and narrow, leaves have distinctive depressed veins. The flowers are greenish, cream, to yellow-green pedicellate of 4-6mm. The flowers often are clothed in dense reddish-brown hairs. The flowers are hermaphrodite and arranged in inflorescences. The inflorescence is an erect panicle arising from the axils of leaves. The stamens are in two whorls, the ovary is in superior position, reversal, the first optimisation.The fruit is variable from one species to other. in some species it is a drupe large globose green, 12 cm in diameter with a tip at the apex. In other species the berry is a erect plum-like dark purple or sometimes is an erect, elliptical to ovoid drupe dark purple when ripe, and covered in a waxy bloom. Others the fruit is a black round drupe with a glaucous bloom, with a single seed inside. In The Beilschmiedia genus the dispersal of seeds is due to birds that swallow them, so the berries are shaped to attract the birds. The fruits are an important food source for birds. It contains one seed. Fruits are a favorite food of the native pigeons in New Zealand.
Species
There are three endemic Beilschmiedia species in New Zealand. The others are the common canopy tree tawaTawa (tree)
The Tawa tree is a New Zealand broadleaf tree common in the central parts of the country. Tawa is often the dominant canopy species in lowland forests in the North Island and the north east of the South Island, but will also often form the subcanopy in primary forests throughout the country in...
, (B. tawa), which has thin willow-like leaves, and the tawaroa (B. tawaroa) which is similar to tawa but has broader leaves. New Zealand pigeon is the only species which can disperse the large seeds of the taraire pass through its gut unharmed.
Chileans Beilschmiedia miersii
Beilschmiedia miersii
Beilschmiedia miersii , an evergreen tree in the Lauraceae native to central Chile from 30 to 35°S., up to 1200 meters above sea level and lives under very dry conditions....
and Beilschmiedia berteroana
Beilschmiedia berteroana
Beilschmiedia berteroana is a threatened evergreen tree in the family Lauraceae native to Chile: 35 to 37°S.-Description:...
are sclerophyllous endangered trees endemics to central Chile.
The North Belloto (B.miersii) grows in coastal forest, while the South Belloto (B.berteroana) grows in sub-mountain Andean zone of the temperate deciduous forest region of central Chile.
Both forest associations are currently represented in the System of Wild Protected Areas by the government of Chile (SNASPE), they are endangered.
It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):