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Image:Bursera simaruba0.jpg Gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Sapindales Family: Burseraceae Kunth
Genera
See text.

Burseraceae is a family of 17-18 genera and about 540 species of flowering plants, also known as the Torchwood family or incense tree family. The family includes both trees and shrubs, and is native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Some members of the family produce fragrant resins used as incense or perfume, most notably frankincense and myrrh.

Genera

Aucoumea Beiselia Boswellia (frankincense) Bursera Canarium Commiphora (myrrh)

Crepidospermum Dacryodes Garuga Haplolobus Pachylobus Protium

Santiria Scutinanthe Tetragastris Trattinnickia Triomma

[edit] External links

• Burseraceae in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants.

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