# Bursaria
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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{About|the genus of plants|the genus of ciliates|Bursaria (ciliate)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
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| image = Bursaria spinosa flowers and fruit P2150004.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Bursaria spinosa](/source/Bursaria_spinosa)''
| taxon = Bursaria
| authority = [Cav.](/source/Antonio_Jos%C3%A9_Cavanilles)[{{cite web|title=''Bursaria''|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/70274|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=31 October 2021}}]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}
'''''Bursaria''''' is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the family [Pittosporaceae](/source/Pittosporaceae) and is [endemic](/source/endemic) to Australia. They are shrubs or slender trees, often with spiny branches and have [simple leaves](/source/Leaf), relatively small flowers with five [sepal](/source/sepal)s, five petals and five [stamen](/source/stamen)s, and fruit that is a flattened, thin-walled [capsule](/source/Capsule_(fruit)).
==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 [raceme](/source/raceme)s or [panicle](/source/panicle)s 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.[{{cite web |title=''Bursaria'' |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/4742ebaa-d925-4b86-8090-da2076956dbb |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=31 October 2021}}][{{cite web |title=''Bursaria'' |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&showsyn=&dist=&constat=&lvl=gn&name=Bursaria |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |access-date=31 October 2021}}][{{FloraBase|name=''Bursaria''|id=21497}}][{{cite web |title=''Bursaria'' |url=http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Bursaria |publisher=State Herbarium of South Australia |access-date=31 October 2021}}]
==Taxonomy==
The genus ''Bursaria'' was first formally described in 1797 by [Antonio Cavanilles](/source/Antonio_Jos%C3%A9_Cavanilles) in his book ''Icones et descriptiones plantarum'' and the first species he described was ''[Bursaria spinosa](/source/Bursaria_spinosa)''.[{{cite web|title=''Bursaria''|url=https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/480741|publisher=APNI|accessdate=31 October 2021}}][{{cite book|last1=Cavanilles|first1=Antonio Jose|title=Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum|volume=4|number=1|date=1797|location=Madrid|pages=25–26|url=https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/viewer/9682/?offset=#page=34&viewer=picture&o=bookmark&n=0&q=|accessdate=31 October 2021}}] The genus name, ''Bursaria'' means "possessing a bag or a satchel".[{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=65 |edition=3rd}}]
===Species list===
The names of eight species are accepted by the [Australian Plant Census](/source/Australian_Plant_Census) as of October 2021:[{{cite web |title=''Bursaria'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/search/taxonomy?product=APC&tree.id=51209179&name=Bursaria&inc._scientific=&inc.scientific=on&inc._cultivar=&max=100&display=apc&search=true |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=31 October 2021}}]
* ''[Bursaria calcicola](/source/Bursaria_calcicola)'' [L.Cayzer](/source/Lindy_W._Cayzer), [Crisp](/source/Michael_Crisp) & [I.Telford](/source/Ian_R.H._Telford) (N.S.W.)
* ''[Bursaria cayzerae](/source/Bursaria_cayzerae)'' I.Telford & [L.M.Copel.](/source/L.M.Copel.) (N.S.W.)
* ''[Bursaria incana](/source/Bursaria_incana)'' [Lindl.](/source/Lindl.) (N.T., Qld.)
* ''[Bursaria longisepala](/source/Bursaria_longisepala)'' [Domin](/source/Karel_Domin) (N.S.W.)
* ''[Bursaria occidentalis](/source/Bursaria_occidentalis)'' [E.M.Benn.](/source/Eleanor_Marion_Bennett) (W.A.)
* ''[Bursaria reevesii](/source/Bursaria_reevesii)'' L.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford (Qld.)
* ''[Bursaria spinosa](/source/Bursaria_spinosa)'' Cav. – sweet bursaria, blackthorn (S.A., Qld., N.S.W., Vic., Tas.)
* ''[Bursaria tenuifolia](/source/Bursaria_tenuifolia)'' [F.M.Bailey](/source/F.M.Bailey) (Qld.)
==Distribution==
Species of ''Bursaria'' occur in all Australian states and territories and the [Northern Territory](/source/Northern_Territory).