Boraginaceae

Bourreria P.Browne

First published in Civ. Nat. Hist. Jamaica: 168 (1756), nom. cons.
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Mexico to Central America, Caribbean, Venezuela, Ethiopia to Mozambique, West Indian Ocean.

Distribution

Native to:

Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Florida, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya, Leeward Is., Madagascar, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Somalia, Southwest Caribbean, Tanzania, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Windward Is.

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Hist. Jamaica: 168 (1756) nom. cons., Beureria in ind.: 492 non Beureria Ehret (1755).
  • Jacq., Enum. Pl. Carib.: 14 (1760).

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
  • Thulin in Nord. J. Bot. 7: 413–417 (1987).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Civ. Nat. Hist. Jam.: 168, 492 (1756), as “Beurreria”
  • Schulz in Urban, Sym. Antill. 7: 45 (1911), as “Beurreria”
  • Thulin in Nordic Journ. Bot. 7: 413 (1987), nom. conserv.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0