''Burckella'' is a genus of plants in the family

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, described as a genus in 1890.Tropicos, ''Burckella'' Pierre
/ref> It is named for the Dutch botanist

William Burck William Burck (4 February 1848 in Monnickendam, the Netherlands – 25 September 1910 in Leiden, the Netherlands)New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

, the Indonesian province of

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, and the islands of

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east of New Guinea.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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References

Sapotaceae genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre {{Sapotaceae-stub