# Porlieria

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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| image = Chilean guayacan, Cerro Pochoco, Lo Barnechea, Metropolitana de Santiago, CL imported from iNaturalist photo 212638165.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Porlieria chilensis](/source/Porlieria_chilensis)'' in Metropolitan Region, Chile
| taxon = Porlieria
| authority = [Ruiz & Pav.](/source/Ruiz_y_Pav%C3%B3n)<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>
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'''''Porlieria''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the caltrop family, [Zygophyllaceae](/source/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](/source/Porlieria_arida)'' <small>Rusby</small>
* ''[Porlieria chilensis](/source/Porlieria_chilensis)'' <small>[I.M.Johnst.](/source/Ivan_Murray_Johnston)</small> ([endemic](/source/Endemism) to [Chile](/source/Chile))
* ''[Porlieria hygrometra](/source/Porlieria_hygrometra)'' <small>Ruiz & Pav.</small>
* ''[Porlieria microphylla](/source/Porlieria_microphylla)'' <small>([Baill.](/source/Henri_Ernest_Baillon)) Descole et al.</small>

===Formerly placed here===
* ''[Guaiacum angustifolium](/source/Guaiacum_angustifolium)'' <small>[Engelm.](/source/George_Engelmann)</small> (as ''P. angustifolia'' <small>(Engelm.) [A.Gray](/source/Asa_Gray)</small>)<ref name="GRINSpecies"/>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Zygophyllaceae/Porlieria/ The Plant List]
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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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