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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Ocotea''
| image = Ocotea foetens.JPG
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''Ocotea foetens'' ([[Terra Chã]], [[Azores]]).
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Laurales]]
| familia = [[Lauraceae]]
| genus = ''Ocotea''
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
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}}

'''''Ocotea''''' is a genus of [[flowering plant]]s belonging to the family [[Lauraceae]]. The genus includes over 200 [[species]] of [[evergreen]] [[tree]]s and [[shrub]]s, distributed mostly in tropical and subtropical regions of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]], the [[West Indies]], also with a few species in [[Africa]] and [[Madagascar]], and one, ''[[Ocotea foetens]]'' (Til or Tilo), native to the islands of [[Macaronesia]]. 

;Selected species
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*''[[Ocotea aciphylla]]''
*''[[Ocotea acutifolia]]''
*''[[Ocotea albida]]''
*''[[Ocotea albopunctulata]]''
*''[[Ocotea amazonica]]''
*''[[Ocotea arechavaletae]]''
*''[[Ocotea arnottiana]]''
*''[[Ocotea bangii]]''
*''[[Ocotea benthamiana]]''
*''[[Ocotea bofo]]''
*''[[Ocotea bullata]]''
*''[[Ocotea camphoromoea]]''
*''[[Ocotea caudata]]''
*''[[Ocotea cernua]]''
*''[[Ocotea corymbosa]]''
*''[[Ocotea cuneifolia]]''
*''[[Ocotea cuprea]]''
*''[[Ocotea cymbarum]]''
*''[[Ocotea diospyrifolia]]''
*''[[Ocotea floribunda]]''
*''[[Ocotea foeniculacea]]''
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*''[[Ocotea foetens]]''
*''[[Ocotea glaziovii]]''
*''[[Ocotea gracilis]]''
*''[[Ocotea guianensis]]''
*''[[Ocotea heterochroma]]''
*''[[Ocotea illustris]]''
*''[[Ocotea infrafoveolata]]''
*''[[Ocotea javitensis]]''
*''[[Ocotea jelskii]]''
*''[[Ocotea lancifolia]]''
*''[[Ocotea laxiflora]]''
*''[[Ocotea leucoxylon]]''
*''[[Ocotea longifolia]]''
*''[[Ocotea mandonii]]''
*''[[Ocotea marmellensis]]''
*''[[Ocotea matogrossensis]]''
*''[[Ocotea minarum]]''
*''[[Ocotea monzonensis]]''
*''[[Ocotea moschata]]''
*''[[Ocotea nemodaphne]]''
*''[[Ocotea oblonga]]''
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*''[[Ocotea odorifera]]''
*''[[Ocotea pauciflora]]''
*''[[Ocotea porosa]]''
*''[[Ocotea porphyria]]''
*''[[Ocotea portoricensis]]''
*''[[Ocotea pretiosa]]''
*''[[Ocotea prunifolia]]''
*''[[Ocotea puberula]]''
*''[[Ocotea regeliana]]''
*''[[Ocotea rodundata]]''
*''[[Ocotea rubrinervis]]''
*''[[Ocotea rusbyana]]''
*''[[Ocotea sericea]]''
*''[[Ocotea smithiana]]''
*''[[Ocotea spathulata]]''
*''[[Ocotea spectabilis]]''
*''[[Ocotea spixiana]]''
*''[[Ocotea usambarensis]]''
*''[[Ocotea velloziana]]''
*''[[Ocotea wrightii]]''
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===Cultivation and uses===
Plants of the genus produce [[essential oil]]s, and ''O. cymbarum'', Peruvian Rosewood (''O. caudata''), Brazilian Sassafras (''O. pretiosa''), and [[East African Camphorwood]] (''O. usambarensis'') are exploited commercially. A few species are harvested for commercial [[timber]], including ''O. puberula'' of Central and South America and ''[[Ocotea bullata|O. bullata]]'', known as Black Stinkwood or True Stinkwood, of [[South Africa]].

==References==
*[http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=0&name_str=ocotea eFloras search results: ''Ocotea'']
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?8359 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Ocotea'']
*[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=OCOTE USDA Plants Profile: ''Ocotea'']

[[Category:Laurales]]