Bursera hollickii

Bursera hollickii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Burseraceae
Genus: Bursera
Species: B. hollickii
Binomial name
Bursera hollickii
(Britton) Fawc. & Rendle 1920
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Terebinthus hollickii Britton 1908
  • Elaphrium hollickii (Britton) Rose 1911

Bursera hollickii is a species of plant in the Burseraceae family. It is endemic to Jamaica, and listed as endangered.[3]

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. ↑ The Plant List, Bursera hollickii (Britton) Fawc. & Rendle
  2. ↑ The International Plant Names Index
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Britton, Nathaniel Lord 1908. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 35: 341-342 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): 240–246
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