Bursera: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Sapindales
- Family
- Burseraceae
- Genus
- Bursera
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Bursera
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bursera
Bursera is a genus with about 100 described species of flowering shrubs and trees varying in size up to 25 m (82 ft) high. It is the type genus for Burseraceae. The trees are native (often for many species endemic) to the Americas, from the southern United States south through to northern Argentina, in tropical and warm temperate forest habitats. It is named after the 17th-century Danish botanist Joachim Burser.
Several Mexican species (such as B. aloexylon and B. delpechiana) produce a type of wood known as linaloe (from Mexican Spanish lináloe, from Latin lignum aloes, lit. 'wood of the aloe' or 'aloeswood'). They contain the aromatic oil linalool.
A number of species from tropical Asia were once included in this genus, but are now treated in the genus Protium.
The Bursera graveolens tree (also known as Palo Santo) belongs to this genus.
...Bursera in languages:
- Chinese
- 裂欖屬
- Czech
- březule
- Russian
- Бурзера
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Bursera altijuga
- Bursera amplifolia
- Bursera angustata
- Bursera aptera
- Bursera arida
- Bursera ariensis
- Bursera aromatica
- Bursera aspleniifolia
- Bursera attenuata
- Bursera bicolor
- Bursera biflora
- Bursera bipinnata
- Bursera bipinnata × cuneata
- Bursera bolivarii
- Bursera bonetii
- Bursera brunea
- Bursera cerasiifolia
- Bursera chemapodicta
- Bursera cinerea
- Bursera citronella
- Bursera collina
- Bursera confusa
- Bursera copallifera
- Bursera coyucensis
- Bursera crenata
- Bursera cuneata
- Bursera denticulata
- Bursera discolor
- Bursera diversifolia
- Bursera dubia
- Bursera epinnata
- Bursera esparzae
- Bursera excelsa
- Bursera exequielii
- Bursera fagaroides
- Bursera filicifolia
- Bursera fragilis
- Bursera fragrantissima
- Bursera frenningiae
- Bursera galeottiana
- Bursera gibarensis
- Bursera glabra
- Bursera glabrifolia
- Bursera glauca
- Bursera gracilipes
- Bursera grandifolia
- Bursera graveolens
- Bursera heliae
- Bursera heteresthes
- Bursera heterophylla
- Bursera hindsiana
- Bursera hintonii
- Bursera hollickii
- Bursera inaguensis
- Bursera infernidialis
- Bursera instabilis
- Bursera isthmica
- Bursera itzae
- Bursera jerzyi
- Bursera karsteniana
- Bursera karwinskii
- Bursera kerberi
- Bursera krusei
- Bursera lancifolia
- Bursera laurihuertae
- Bursera laxiflora
- Bursera linanoe
- Bursera littoralis
- Bursera longipes
- Bursera lunanii
- Bursera macvaughiana
- Bursera madrigalii
- Bursera malacophylla
- Bursera martae
- Bursera medranoana
- Bursera microphylla
- Bursera mirandae
- Bursera morelensis
- Bursera multifolia
- Bursera multijuga
- Bursera occulta
- Bursera ovalifolia
- Bursera palaciosii
- Bursera palmeri
- Bursera paradoxa
- Bursera penicillata
- Bursera permollis
- Bursera pontiveteris
- Bursera ribana
- Bursera roseana
- Bursera rupicola
- Bursera rzedowskii
- Bursera sarcopoda
- Bursera sarukhanii
- Bursera schlechtendalii
- Bursera silviae
- Bursera simaruba
- Bursera simplex
- Bursera staphyleoides
- Bursera stenophylla
- Bursera submoniliformis
- Bursera subtrifoliata
- Bursera suntui
- Bursera tecomaca
- Bursera toledoana
- Bursera tomentosa
- Bursera trifoliolata
- Bursera trimera
- Bursera vazquezyanesii
- Bursera vejar-vazquezii
- Bursera velutina
- Bursera xochipalensis
- Bursera xolocotzii































































































































































