
thumb|Cryptocarya mackinnoniana
GENUS
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thumb|Cryptocarya mackinnoniana
Cryptocarya is a genus of about 360 species of flowering plants in the laurel family, Lauraceae. Most species are trees, occasionally shrubs, distributed through the Neotropical, Afrotropical, Indomalayan, and Australasian realms. Most plants in the genus Cryptocarya have leaves arranged alternately along the stems, small flowers with 6 tepals, stamens in 2 rows, the inner row alternating with staminodes, and the fruit is a drupe.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).