Bursera

Bursera

taxobox
name = "Bursera"


image_caption = "Bursera simaruba"
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Sapindales
familia = Burseraceae
genus = "Bursera"
genus_authority = Jacq. ex L.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text|

"Bursera" is a genus of about 40 species of flowering plants in the family Burseraceae, native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Americas, from the southern United States south to northern Argentina. A number of species from tropical Asia sometimes included in the genus are now treated in the separate genus "Protium".

The species are shrubs and small to medium-sized trees up to 25 m tall.

;Selected species
*"Bursera acuminata"
*"Bursera aloexylon" (Schiede ex Schltdl.) Engl.
*"Bursera excelsa" (Kunth) Engl.
*"Bursera fagaroides" (Kunth) Engl.
*"Bursera galeottiana" Engl.
*"Bursera glabrifolia" (Kunth) Engl.
*"Bursera graveolens" (Kunth) Triana & Planch.
*"Bursera leptophloeos" Engl.
*"Bursera microphylla" A.Gray
*"Bursera penicillata" (DC.) Engl.
*"Bursera schlechtendalii" Engl.
*"Bursera simaruba" (L.) Sarg.

The genus is named after the Danish botanist Joachim Burser (1583-1639).

References

* [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?1816 Germplasm Resources Information Network: "Bursera"]


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