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Rosselia
Sign in to saveRosselia is a genus of plants in the family Burseraceae. The sole species is Rosselia bracteata, endemic to Papua New Guinea. It is a tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome(s).
Species
FamilyBurseraceae
Native toNew Guinea
General: Rosselia is known from two collections from rain forest
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- Collections
- UWBM, NCSM, NRM
- Recorded in
- United States, Sweden
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Rosselia is a genus of plants in the family Burseraceae. The sole species is Rosselia bracteata, endemic to Papua New Guinea. It is a tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome(s).
Both the genus and the species were circumscribed by Lewis Leonard Forman in Kew Bull. vol.49 on page 603 in 1994.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rosselia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.