Kubitzkia

Kubitzia is an American neotropical flowering plant genus in the family Lauraceae with two species from South America.

== Description == They are evergreen trees up to 25 m high with spicy odor and hermaphrodites. The leaves are alternate, entire, elliptical or narrowly elliptical glossy in appearance, pointed oval in shape with an apical mucro, or 'drip tip', which permit the leaves to shed water despite the humidity, allowing perspiration and respiration from plant in wet laurel forest habitat. The fruit is a berry dispersed mostly by birds. They are present in low and mountain cloud forest in Caribbean islands, Central America, and northern to central South America. The genus was described by published in Taxon 35 (1): 165 in 1986. The type species is Kubitzkia mezii (Kosterman.) Van der Werff.