Agathosma

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Agathosma

Agathosma betulina

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Rutaceae
Genus:	Agathosma Willd., 1809

Species

See text.

Agathosma is a genus of about 135 species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, native to the southern part of Africa. Common names include Bookoo, Buchu, Bucco, and Diosma.

They are small shrubs and subshrubs, mostly with erect woody stems reaching 30-100 cm tall, but low-growing and prostrate in some species. The leaves are usually opposite, ericoid, often crowded, simple, entire, from 0.5-3.5 cm long. The flowers are produced in terminal clusters, 0.7-2 cm diameter, with five white, pink, red or purple, petals.

Many of the species are highly aromatic, and the genus name means "good fragrance". Some species of the genus are used as herbal remedies.

[edit] Synonyms

Barosma Willd.
Hartogia L.
Parapetalifera J. C. Wendl.

[edit] Selected species

Agathosma abrupta
Agathosma acocksii
Agathosma acutissima
Agathosma adenandriflora
Agathosma adnata
Agathosma aemula
Agathosma affinis
Agathosma alaris
Agathosma alligans
Agathosma alpina
Agathosma alticola
Agathosma anomala
Agathosma apiculata
Agathosma asperifolia
Agathosma barnesiae
Agathosma bathii
Agathosma betulina (syn. Barosma betulina), used as a herbal kidney conditioner
Agathosma bicolor
Agathosma bicornuta
Agathosma bifida
Agathosma bisulca
Agathosma blaerioides
Agathosma bodkinii
Agathosma capensis
Agathosma capitata
Agathosma cedrimontana
Agathosma cephalodes
Agathosma cerefolium
Agathosma ciliaris (syn. Agathosma rugosa)
Agathosma ciliata
Agathosma clavisepala
Agathosma collina
Agathosma concava
Agathosma conferta
Agathosma cordifolia
Agathosma corymbosa
Agathosma craspedota
Agathosma crassifolia
Agathosma crenulata (syn. Barosma crenulata), used as a herbal kidney conditioner
Agathosma decurrens
Agathosma dentata
Agathosma dielsiana
Agathosma distans
Agathosma divaricata
Agathosma dregeana
Agathosma elata
Agathosma elegans
Agathosma eriantha
Agathosma esterhuyseniae
Agathosma florida
Agathosma florulenta
Agathosma foetidissima
Agathosma foleyana
Agathosma fraudulenta
Agathosma geniculata
Agathosma giftbergensis
Agathosma glabrata
Agathosma glandulosa
Agathosma gnidiiflora
Agathosma gonaquensis
Agathosma hirsuta
Agathosma hirta
Agathosma hispida
Agathosma hookeri
Agathosma humilis
Agathosma imbricata
Agathosma insignis
Agathosma involucrata
Agathosma joubertiana
Agathosma juniperifolia
Agathosma kougaense
Agathosma krakadouwensis
Agathosma lanceolata
Agathosma lancifolia
Agathosma latipetala
Agathosma leptospermoides
Agathosma linifolia
Agathosma longicornu
Agathosma marifolia
Agathosma marlothii
Agathosma martiana
Agathosma microcalyx
Agathosma microcarpa
Agathosma minuta
Agathosma mirabilis
Agathosma mucronulata Buchu
Agathosma muirii
Agathosma mundtii
Agathosma namaquensis
Agathosma odoratissima
Agathosma orbicularis
Agathosma ovalifolia
Agathosma ovata False Buchu
Agathosma pallens
Agathosma pattisoniae
Agathosma peglerae
Agathosma pentachotoma
Agathosma phillipsii
Agathosma pilifera
Agathosma planifolia
Agathosma propinqua
Agathosma puberula
Agathosma pubigera
Agathosma pulchella
Agathosma pungens
Agathosma purpurea
Agathosma recurvifolia
Agathosma rehmanniana
Agathosma riversdalensis
Agathosma robusta
Agathosma roodebergensis
Agathosma rosmarinifolia
Agathosma rubricaulis
Agathosma rudolphii
Agathosma sabulosa
Agathosma salina
Agathosma scaberula
Agathosma sedifolia
Agathosma serpyllacea
Agathosma serratifolia
Agathosma sladeniana
Agathosma spinescens
Agathosma spinosa
Agathosma squamosa
Agathosma stenopetala
Agathosma stenosepala
Agathosma stilbeoides
Agathosma stipitata
Agathosma stokoei
Agathosma subteretifolia
Agathosma tabularis
Agathosma thymifolia
Agathosma trichocarpa
Agathosma tulbaghensis
Agathosma umbonata
Agathosma unicarpellata
Agathosma venusta
Agathosma virgata
Agathosma zwartbergense