Spermatophyta: Dicotyledonae: Archichlamydeae

Burseraceae - Myrrh family

Wild, H. (1963) Burseraceae FZ 2(1)

Description of the family

Trees or shrubs, sometimes spiny. Stipules 0. Leaves (in ours) alternate, imparipinnate or 1-2-foliolate, often congested at branch ends. Flowers unisexual or (rarely) bisexual. Ovary superior, 2-5-locular. Fruit a drupe.

Worldwide: 17 genera and 540 species, tropics, especially America and NE Africa.

No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species

Links to cultivated genera:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this family

GenusContent
Bursera Jacq. ex L.

Other sources of information about Burseraceae:

Flora of Zimbabwe: native/naturalised Burseraceae page
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Burseraceae
Google: Web - Images - Scholar


Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, 2002-13

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. & Ballings, P. (2013). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: Family page: Burseraceae.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/family.php?family_id=40, retrieved 20 June 2013

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