Bursera hollickii

Bursera hollickii is a species of plant in the Burseraceae family. It is endemic to Jamaica, and listed as endangered.[1]

Bursera hollickii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Burseraceae
Genus: Bursera
Species:
B. hollickii
Binomial name
Bursera hollickii
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Terebinthus hollickii Britton 1908
  • Elaphrium hollickii (Britton) Rose 1911

Bursera hollickii is a tree up to 6 meters tall with a trunk up to 25 cm in diameter. Bark is reddish-gray outside, red inside. Leaves are up to 12 cm long, clustered at the ends of twigs, thick and leathery with 3-7 leaflets. Flowers are in elongated racemes.[4][5]

References
  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Bursera hollickii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 20 August 2007.
  2. The Plant List, Bursera hollickii (Britton) Fawc. & Rendle
  3. The International Plant Names Index
  4. Britton, Nathaniel Lord (1908). "The genus Terebinthus P. Br. in the West Indies". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 35: 341–2. as Terebinthus hollickii
  5. Daly, D.C. (1993). "Notes on Bursera in South America, including a new species. Studies in Neotropical Burseraceae VII". Brittonia. 45 (3): 240–6. doi:10.2307/2807109. JSTOR 2807109.


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