Brucea

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image = Brucea antidysenterica Ypey90.jpg

|image_caption = Brucea antidysenterica

|taxon = Brucea

|authority = J.F.Mill.

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{{Species list

| Gonus | Lour.

| Laumoniera | Noot.

| Lussa | Rumph. ex Kuntze

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Brucea is a genus of plant in the family Simaroubaceae. It is named for the Scottish scholar and explorer James Bruce.

{{As of|December 2023}}, Plants of the World Online accepts the following species:

• Brucea antidysenterica {{Au|J.F.Mill.}}{{cite book | last=Miller | first=John Frederick | author-link=John Frederick Miller | year=1779 | title=Icones animalium et plantarum. Various subjects of Natural History, wherein are delineated Birds, Animals and many curious Plants, &c. | volume=1 |language=la | location=London | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49649820 | at=Part 5, Plate 25}} Published in 10 parts with 6 plates in each part. See: {{ cite journal | last1=Sherborn | first1=C.D. | author1-link=Charles Davies Sherborn | last2=Iredale | first2=T. | author2-link=Tom Iredale | date=1921 | title=J. F. Miller's Icones | journal=Ibis | volume=3 | series=11th series | issue=2 | pages=302–309 | doi=10.1111/j.1474-919X.1921.tb00801.x | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58569377 | ref=none}}
• Brucea bruceadelpha {{Au|(Noot.) Kosterm.}}
• Brucea guineensis {{Au|G.Don}}
• Brucea javanica {{Au|(L.) Merr.}}
• Brucea macrocarpa {{Au|Stannard}}
• Brucea mollis {{Au|Wall. ex A.W.Benn.}}
• Brucea tenuifolia {{Au|Engl.}}
• Brucea tonkinensis {{Au|(Lecomte) Gagnep.}}
• Brucea trichotoma {{Au|Spreng.}}