{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Chilean guayacan, Cerro Pochoco, Lo Barnechea, Metropolitana de Santiago, CL imported from iNaturalist photo 212638165.jpg | image_caption = ''Porlieria chilensis'' in Metropolitan Region, Chile | taxon = Porlieria | authority = Ruiz & Pav.<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?9766 |title=Genus: ''Porlieria'' Ruiz & Pav. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2004-06-18 |accessdate=2010-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007170857/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?9766 |archive-date=2012-10-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species }}
'''''Porlieria''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the caltrop family, Zygophyllaceae.<ref name="GRIN"/> Species within this genus are shrubs or small trees of dry subtropical regions of South America.<ref name="POWO" /><ref>{{cite book |first=Samuel James |last=Record |author2=Clayton Dissinger Mell |year=1924 |title=Timbers of Tropical America |publisher=Yale University Press}}</ref> The generic name honours Spanish ambassador Don Antonio Porlier de Baxamar.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kaN-hLL-3qEC |title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology |volume=3: M-Q |year=2000 |first=Umberto |last=Quattrocchi |isbn=978-0-8493-2673-8 |page=2151|publisher=CRC Press }}</ref>
==Species== Accepted species include:<ref name=POWO>{{cite web |url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30031563-2 |title= Porlieria Ruiz & Pav. |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=January 4, 2025}}</ref><ref name="GRINSpecies">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?9766 |title=GRIN Species Records of ''Porlieria'' |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |accessdate=2010-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000202043318/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?9766 |archive-date=2000-02-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''Porlieria arida'' <small>Rusby</small> * ''Porlieria chilensis'' <small>I.M.Johnst.</small> (endemic to Chile) * ''Porlieria hygrometra'' <small>Ruiz & Pav.</small> * ''Porlieria microphylla'' <small>(Baill.) Descole et al.</small>
===Formerly placed here=== * ''Guaiacum angustifolium'' <small>Engelm.</small> (as ''P. angustifolia'' <small>(Engelm.) A.Gray</small>)<ref name="GRINSpecies"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Zygophyllaceae/Porlieria/ The Plant List] {{Commonscat-inline|Porlieria|''Porlieria''}} {{Wikispecies-inline|Porlieria|''Porlieria''}}
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Category:Porlieria Category:Zygophyllales genera Category:Flora of Southern America Category:Taxa named by José Antonio Pavón Jiménez Category:Taxa named by Hipólito Ruiz López
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