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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]
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [2].
Ecology: A rare species restricted to primary and secondary evergreen forest on limestone mountains.[2].
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:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rutanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Sapindales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Burseraceae
()
- Kunth, 1824, nom. cons.
- Family:
Burseraceae
(
- Order:
Sapindales
(
- Superorder:
Rutanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Guillaumin Publication : in Rev. Gen. de Bot. xix. 161 (1907).
Similar Species
Members of the genus Bursera
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
B. fagaroides (Elephant Tree) · B. fagaroides var. elongata (Copal) · B. graveolens (Palo Santo) · B. hindsiana (Red Elephant Tree) · B. microphylla (Elephant Tree) · B. simaruba (Dysentery Bark)
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Further Reading
- Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment. 1996. Sach do Viet Nam Phan Thuc Vat. Science and Technics Publishing House, Hanoi.
- Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Bursera tonkinensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7146160
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15289563
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:127235-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 127235-1
- IUCN ID: 196503
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1023490
Footnotes
- "Bursera". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Bursera tonkinensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]
