Description
Genus Bursera
Trees
with uni or bipinnate, rarely 1-foliolate leaves. Leaflets
petiolulate
, obtuse
or retuse
, entire or serrate. Inflorescence a panicle. Flowers small, bisexual
or unisexual
. Sepals 3-6, connate
at the base
, imbricate. Petals 3-6, oblong-ovate, often much longer
than the sepals, reflexed
or spreading
, valvate
. Stamens 6-12, free
; anthers
oblong-ovate. Disc annular
, crenate
. Ovary sessile, ovate-subglobose, 3-5-locular, each locule 2 ovuled; style very short or absent; stigmas 3-5, obtuse. Fruit a globose
or slightly oblong
drupe with 3-5, l-seeded pyrenes. Seeds with foliaceous
cotyledons.
A genus with about 80 species, mostly in tropical
America.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rutanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Burserales
()
- Baskerville, 1839
- Family:
Burseraceae
()
- Kunth, 1824
- Family:
Burseraceae
(
- Order:
Burserales
(
- Superorder:
Rutanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Bursera
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 193 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
B. acuminata · B. acutidens · B. acutifolia · B. aloexylon · B. altijuga · B. altissima · B. amplifolia · B. angustata · B. aptera · B. aracouchili · B. arborea · B. arida · B. ariensis · B. aromatica · B. asplenifolia · B. aspleniifolia · B. attenuata · B. australasica · B. balsamifera · B. beandou · B. bicolor · B. biflora · B. bipinnata · B. bolivarii · B. bonairensis · B. bonetii · B. brachypoda · B. brunea · B. burchardii · B. carana · B. caudata · B. cerasifolia · B. chemapodicta · B. cinerea · B. citronella · B. collina · B. concinna · B. confusa · B. copallifera · B. covillei · B. coyucensis · B. crenata · B. cuneata · B. decandra · B. delpechiana · B. denticulata · B. discolor · B. diversifolia · B. dubia · B. elemifera · B. epinnata · B. eracouchii · B. esparzae · B. excelsa · B. fagaroides (Fragrant Bursera) · B. fagaroides var. elongata (Fragrant Bursera) · B. fagoroides · B. filicifolia · B. fragilis · B. fragrantissima · B. frenningae · B. frenningiae · B. galeottiana · B. galottianum · B. glabra · B. glabrescens · B. glabrifolia · B. glauca · B. goldmanii · B. gracilipes · B. gracilis · B. grandiflora · B. grandifolia · B. graveolens (Palo Santo) · B. graveolens pilosa · B. guianensis · B. gummifera · B. heliae · B. heptaphylla · B. heteresthes · B. heterophylla · B. hindsiana (Red Elephant Tree) · B. hintoni · B. hintonii · B. hollickii · B. howellii · B. icicariba · B. inaguensis · B. infernidialis · B. inopinata · B. instabilis · B. integerrima · B. inversa · B. isthmica · B. itzae · B. javanica · B. jonesii · B. jorullensis · B. karsteniana · B. karwinskii
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Notes
Identifiers
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2106558
Footnotes
- "Bursera". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
