
Bourreria
Bourreria is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as strongbark or strongback. The generic name was chosen by Patrick Browne to honour German pharmacist Johann Ambrosius Beurer. The genus is native to the Americas, where species are distributed from Mexico to northern South America, and in the Caribbean and Florida in the United States. The center of diversity is in the Caribbean, Central America, and...
52 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Bahama Strongbark
speciesBourreria succulenta

Sonoran Strongbark
speciesBourreria sonorae
Bourreria pulchra
speciesBourreria pulchra

Little Strongbark
speciesBourreria havanensis

Bourreria mollis
speciesBourreria mollis

roble de guayo
speciesBourreria virgata

Bourreria huanita
speciesBourreria huanita

Bourreria superba
speciesBourreria superba

Bourreria petiolaris
speciesBourreria petiolaris

Bourreria rubra
speciesBourreria rubra

Bourreria tomentosa
speciesBourreria tomentosa

Bourreria andrieuxii
speciesBourreria andrieuxii

Bourreria exsucca
speciesBourreria exsucca

Bourreria ritovegana
speciesBourreria ritovegana

Bourreria spathulata
speciesBourreria spathulata

Bourreria croatii
speciesBourreria croatii

Bourreria bosseri
speciesBourreria bosseri

Bourreria quirosii
speciesBourreria quirosii

Bourreria nemoralis
speciesBourreria nemoralis

Bourreria leslieae
speciesBourreria leslieae

Bourreria costaricensis
speciesBourreria costaricensis
Bourreria moaensis
speciesBourreria moaensis

Bourreria franciscoi
speciesBourreria franciscoi

Bourreria grandicalyx
speciesBourreria grandicalyx

Bourreria scabra
speciesBourreria scabra
Bourreria linearis
speciesBourreria linearis

Bourreria schatziana
speciesBourreria schatziana
Bourreria teitensis
speciesBourreria teitensis

Bourreria hintonii
speciesBourreria hintonii
Bourreria rowellii
speciesBourreria rowellii
Bourreria longiflora
speciesBourreria longiflora
Bourreria rekoi
speciesBourreria rekoi
Bourreria darcyana
speciesBourreria darcyana
Bourreria grayumii
speciesBourreria grayumii
Bourreria labatii
speciesBourreria labatii
Bourreria laxa
speciesBourreria laxa
Bourreria lowryana
speciesBourreria lowryana
Bourreria moratiana
speciesBourreria moratiana
Bourreria polyneura
speciesBourreria polyneura
Bourreria randrianasoloana
speciesBourreria randrianasoloana
Bourreria rinconensis
speciesBourreria rinconensis
Bourreria angustifolia
speciesBourreria angustifolia
Bourreria bolivarensis
speciesBourreria bolivarensis
Bourreria calophylla
speciesBourreria calophylla
Bourreria capuronii
speciesBourreria capuronii
Bourreria comorensis
speciesBourreria comorensis
Bourreria aquilana
speciesBourreria aquilana
Bourreria microphylla
speciesBourreria microphylla
Bourreria apetala
speciesBourreria apetala
Bourreria lyciacea
speciesBourreria lyciacea
Bourreria motaguensis
speciesBourreria motaguensis
Bourreria orbicularis
speciesBourreria orbicularis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 146962.