Bursaria

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Campanulids
Ordo: Apiales

Familia: Pittosporaceae
Genus: Bursaria
Species: B. calcicola – B. cayzerae – B. incana – B. longisepala – B. occidentalis – B. reevesii – B. spinosa – B. tenuifolia
Name

Bursaria Cav., Icon. [Cavanilles] 4 30. t. 350. (1797)

Type species: Bursaria spinosa Cav., Icones et descriptiones Plantarum 4 30. t. 350. (1797)

References

Cavanilles, A.J. 1797. Icones et descriptiones Plantarum 4 30. t. 350.
Bursaria in: Australian Plant Census (APC) 2022. IBIS database, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Accessed: 2022 Feb. 6.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Bursaria in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Feb. 6. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2022. Bursaria. Published online. Accessed: Feb. 6 2022.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Bursaria in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Bursaria is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to Australia. They are shrubs or slender trees, often with spiny branches and have simple leaves, relatively small flowers with five sepals, five petals and five stamens, and fruit that is a flattened, thin-walled capsule.

Description

Plants in the genus Bursaria range from low shrubs to small, slender trees and have branches that are often spiny. The leaves are arranged alternately along the branches or clustered and are linear to lance-shaped, egg-shaped or wedge-shaped, sometimes with toothed edges or a notched tip. The flowers are relatively small, arranged singly in racemes or panicles at the ends of branchlets or in leaf axils. There are five sepals that are free from each other, five narrow oblong, spreading white petals, and five stamens that are free from each other. The fruit is a flattened, thin-walled capsule containing ten to fifty kidney-shaped seeds.[2][3][4][5]
Taxonomy

The genus Bursaria was first formally described in 1797 by Antonio Cavanilles in his book Icones et descriptiones plantarum and the first species he described was Bursaria spinosa.[6][7] The genus name, Bursaria means "possessing a bag or a satchel".[8]
Species list

The names of eight species are accepted by the Australian Plant Census as of October 2021:[9]

Bursaria calcicola L.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford (N.S.W.)
Bursaria cayzerae I.Telford & L.M.Copel. (N.S.W.)
Bursaria incana Lindl. (N.T., Qld.)
Bursaria longisepala Domin (N.S.W.)
Bursaria occidentalis E.M.Benn. (W.A.)
Bursaria reevesii L.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford (Qld.)
Bursaria spinosa Cav. – sweet bursaria, blackthorn (S.A., Qld., N.S.W., Vic., Tas.)
Bursaria tenuifolia F.M.Bailey (Qld.)

Distribution

Species of Bursaria occur in all Australian states and territories and the Northern Territory.[9]
References

"Bursaria". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
"Bursaria". Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
"Bursaria". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
"Bursaria". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
"Bursaria". State Herbarium of South Australia. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
"Bursaria". APNI. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
Cavanilles, Antonio Jose (1797). Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum. Vol. 4. Madrid. pp. 25–26. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
Sharr, Francis Aubi; George, Alex (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings (3rd ed.). Kardinya, WA: Four Gables Press. p. 65. ISBN 9780958034180.
"Bursaria". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 31 October 2021.