Torchwoods
Burseraceae
The Burseraceae are a moderate-sized family of 17-19 genera and about 540 species of flowering plants. The actual numbers differ according to the time period in which a given source is written describing this family. The Burseraceae are also known as the torchwood family, the frankincense and myrrh family, or simply the incense tree family. The family includes both trees and shrubs, and is native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
18 branches of this family, most-observed first
Bursera
genusBursera
corkwoods
genusCommiphora
Canarium
genusCanarium
Protium
genusProtium
Boswellia
genusBoswellia
Garuga
genusGaruga
Dacryodes
genusDacryodes
Trattinnickia
genusTrattinnickia
Pachylobus
genusPachylobus
Santiria
genusSantiria
Beiselia
genusBeiselia
Aucoumea
genusAucoumea
Scutinanthe
genusScutinanthe
Ambilobea
genusAmbilobea
Haplolobus
genusHaplolobus
Triomma
genusTriomma
Pseudodacryodes
genusPseudodacryodes
Rosselia
genusRosselia
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 62970.