Bulnesia

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Bulnesia
Flowering branches of B. retama
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Zygophyllales
Family: Zygophyllaceae
Subfamily: Larreoideae
Genus: Bulnesia
Gay[1]
Species

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Bulnesia is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae. The wood of some particularly B. arborea and B. sarmientoi is traded as verawood (colloquially "vera") or "lignum vitae". They are close relatives of the "true" lignum vitae trees of genus Guaiacum.

Species

  • Bulnesia arborea Maracaibo lignum vitae
  • Bulnesia bonariensis Griseb.
  • Bulnesia carrapo Killip & Dugand
  • Bulnesia chilensis Gay
  • Bulnesia foliosa Griseb.
  • Bulnesia loraniensis Griseb.
  • Bulnesia macrocarpa Phil.
  • Bulnesia rivas-martinezii G.Navarro
  • Bulnesia retama (Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.) Griseb
  • Bulnesia sarmientoi Argentine lignum vitae, Paraguay lignum vitae, "palo santo", ibiocaí
  • Bulnesia schickendantzii Hieron.[2]

References

Media related to Bulnesia at Wikimedia Commons

  1. "Bulnesia Gay". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2004-06-18. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
  2. "Bulnesia Gay". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2009-09-27. 
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