Andea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae. It includes 26 species of trees and shrubs native to the tropical Americas, including Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru. Most species grow in the northern Andes mountains, after which the genus is named, in tropical montane forests above 1000 meters elevation. One species (A. fulvescens) is native to the Cordillera de Talamanca of Costa Rica.Henk van der Werff "Andea, a New Genus of Neotropical Lauraceae," Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 107(1), 422-431, 18 August 2022. https://doi.org/10.3417/2022748
Plants in the genus are gynodioecious, with some individual plants bearing female flowers only while others bear bisexual (hermaphrodite) flowers. The species were formerly placed in genus Ocotea, and are distinguished from other gynodioecious Ocotea species by their thick terete twigs (generally 6 mm or more in diameter, and 4–7 mm in diameter in a few species), sessile or nearly sessile leaves without domatia, and large flowers (6 mm or more in diameter) with rotate tepals and (shallowly) bowl-shaped cupules.
Species , the follow 26 species are accepted by Plants of the World Online. Andea adusta Andea antioquiensis Andea argyrea Andea carchiensis Andea ceronii Andea crinita Andea ferruginea Andea fulvescens Andea homeieri Andea hueckii Andea infrafoveolata Andea kolera Andea lorda Andea micans Andea multinervis Andea nidiae Andea oreophila Andea otara Andea raymondiana Andea santamartae Andea sericea Andea smithiana Andea sodiroana Andea subparamicola Andea tunquiensis Andea velutina
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