Burdachia

Burdachia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Malpighiaceae
Genus: Burdachia
Mart. ex Endl.
Species
  • Burdachia duckei Steyerm.
  • Burdachia prismatocarpa Adr. Juss.
  • Burdachia sphaerocarpa Adr. Juss.

Burdachia is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Burdachia comprises 3 species of trees and shrubs occurring in lowland forests near rivers or in low, periodically flooded places in Guyana and Amazonian Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, and Peru.

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