''Brucea'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...
in the family
Simaroubaceae. It is named for the Scottish scholar and explorer
James Bruce
James Bruce of Kinnaird (14 December 1730 – 27 April 1794) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who confirmed the source of the Blue Nile. He spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia and in 1770 became the first Europ ...
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It contains the following species (this list may be incomplete):][
* '']Brucea antidysenterica
''Brucea'' is a genus of plant in the family Simaroubaceae. It is named for the Scottish scholar and explorer James Bruce.
It contains the following species (this list may be incomplete):
* '' Brucea antidysenterica''
* '' Brucea bruceadelpha' ...
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* '' Brucea bruceadelpha''
* '' Brucea erythraeae''
* '' Brucea guineensis''
* ''Brucea javanica
''Brucea javanica'' (also known as Macassar kernels) is a shrub in the family Simaroubaceae. The specific epithet ' is from the Latin, meaning "of Java". Other common names in English include Java brucea and kosam.
Description
''Brucea javanica ...
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* '' Brucea macrocarpa''
* ''Brucea mollis
''Brucea'' is a genus of plant in the family Simaroubaceae. It is named for the Scottish scholar and explorer James Bruce.
It contains the following species (this list may be incomplete):
* '' Brucea antidysenterica''
* '' Brucea bruceadelpha' ...
''
* '' Brucea tenuifolia''
* '' Brucea tonkinensis''
* '' Brucea trichotoma''
References
Sapindales genera
Taxa named by John Frederick Miller
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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