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Agathosma
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Agathosma is a genus of about 140 species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, native to the southern part of Africa. Common names include buchu, boegoe, bucco, bookoo, and diosma. Buchu formally denotes two herbal species, prized for their fragrance and medicinal use despite their toxicity. In colloquial use however, the term (see Boegoe) is applied to a wider set of fragrant shrubs or substitutes.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderSapindales
- FamilyRutaceae
Agathosma o Buchu es un género de plantas con flores con 291 especies, perteneciente a la familia Rutaceae. Son nativos del sur de África. Son pequeños arbustos o subarbustos con ramas erectas y ramosas que alcanzan los 30-100 cm de altura pero de bajo crecimiento y rastreras en algunas especies. Las hojas son simples, enteras y opuestas que tienen 5-35 cm de longitud. Las flores en grupos terminales tienen 1-2 cm de diámetro con cinco pétalos de color blanco, rojo, rosa o púrpura. Muchas especies son aromáticas y otras son usadas como plantas medicinales.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 387
- With media
- 342
- Family
- Rutaceae
- Collections
- GH, RSA, MEL, K, UPS, ANSP
- Recorded in
- South Africa
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Agathosma is a genus of about 140 species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, native to the southern part of Africa. Common names include buchu, boegoe, bucco, bookoo, and diosma. Buchu formally denotes two herbal species, prized for their fragrance and medicinal use despite their toxicity. In colloquial use however, the term (see Boegoe) is applied to a wider set of fragrant shrubs or substitutes.
They are small shrubs and subshrubs, mostly with erect woody stems reaching tall, but low-growing and prostrate in some species. The leaves are usually opposite, ericoid, often crowded, simple, entire, from long. The flowers are produced in terminal clusters, diameter, with five white, pink, red or purple, petals.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Agathosma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.