Protium (plant)

taxobox
name = "Protium"

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image_caption = "Protium icicariba"
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Sapindales
familia = Burseraceae
genus = "Protium"
genus_authority = Burm.f.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text|

"Protium" is a genus of more than 120 species of flowering plants in the family Burseraceae, native to the Neotropics (where more than 100 species occur), and to Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, southern Asia from Pakistan east to Vietnam. The genus is most closely related to the genera "Tetragastris" and "Crepidospermum".

The species are usually small or medium sized trees but some can be large, up to 35 meters tall.

;Selected species
*"Protium aracouchini"
*"Protium decandrum"
*"Protium elegans"
*"Protium gigantium"
*"Protium guianense"
*"Protium heptaphyllum"
*"Protium serratum" (syn. "Bursera serrata")

References

* [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?9879 Germplasm Resources Information Network: "Protium"]
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=104892 Flora of Pakistan] (treats species in the genus "Bursera")