Bursera simaruba

Bursera simaruba

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Sapindales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids II Ordo: Sapindales

Familia: Burseraceae
Tribus: Bursereae
Genus: Bursera
Species: Bursera simaruba

Name

Bursera simaruba (L.) Sarg., 1890

Synonyms

• Bursera bonairensis Bolaingh
• Bursera gummifera L.
• Bursera integerrima (Tul.) Triana & Planch.
• Bursera panamensis Pittier
• Bursera simaruba var. yucatanensis Lundell
• Bursera subpubescens (Rose) Engl.
• Elaphrium integerrimum Tul.
• Elaphrium simaruba (L.) Rose
• Elaphrium subpubescens Rose
• Icicariba simaruba (L.) Maza
• Pistacia simaruba L.
• Terebinthus arborea Rose

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America USA (Florida Keys), Mexico (Aguascalientes, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas) Continental: Southern America Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Isl., Cayman Isl., Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Virgin Isl. (Guana, Jost van Dyke, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Tortola, Virgin Gorda), Lesser Antilles (Anguilla, Antigua, Barbados, Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Grenadines, Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, Martinique, Montserrat, Saba, St. Barthelemy, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martin, St. Vincent), Tobago, Trinidad, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Isla Margarita, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Guyana, French Guiana, Belize, Panama, Colombia (Antioquia, Bolvar, Casanare, Choc, Crdoba, Cundinamarca, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, San Andrs, Providencia y Santa Catalina, Santander, Sucre, Vichada), N-Brazil (Roraima, Amazonas), Venezuela (Amazonas, Aragua, Bolivar, Carabobo, Distrito Federal, Falcon, Guarico, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Zulia) References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

• Sargent, C.S., 1890. Garden & Forest 3:260.

Links

• Hassler, M. 2019. Bursera simaruba. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jul. 12. Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Bursera simaruba in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jul. 12. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Bursera simaruba. Published online. Accessed: Jul. 12 2019.
• The Plant List 2013. Bursera simaruba in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jul 12.
• Tropicos.org 2019. Bursera simaruba. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 12 Jul 2019.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Bursera simaruba in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Vernacular names

English: Turpentine Tree, West Indian Birch
español: carate, indio desnudo, jiote, jiñocuabo, palo mulato, chaká, encuero, almácigo

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