Bursera laxiflora: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Sapindales
- Family
- Burseraceae
- Genus
- Bursera
- Species
- Bursera laxiflora
- Scientific Name
- Bursera laxiflora
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bursera laxiflora
Bursera laxiflora is a North American species of trees in the frankincense family in the soapwood order, native to northwestern Mexico. It is fairly common in Sonora (including Tiburón Island) with additional populations in Sinaloa, Baja California Sur, and Socorro Island. There is a report of the species being found in the United States, but it is from the property of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum west of Tucson, most likely a cultivated or escaped specimen.
Bursera laxiflora is a small tree with red bark unlike the gray bark of the closely related B. filicifolia. The trunk can reach a diameter of up to 30 cm (12 inches). Leaves are pinnately compound with 5-9 leaflets, with short hairs on both sides. Drupes are egg-shaped and somewhat flattened.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling 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























































































































































