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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Schinopsis''
| image = Schinopsis_balansae.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Quebracho colorado chaqueño (''Schinopsis balansae'')
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Sapindales]]
| familia = [[Anacardiaceae]]
| genus = '''''Schinopsis'''''
| genus_authority = [[Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler|Engl.]]
}}

'''''Schinopsis''''' is a [[genus]] of [[South America]]n [[tree]]s in the family [[Anacardiaceae]]. The [[species]] within this genus inhabit different regions of the [[Gran Chaco]] ecoregion including parts of northern [[Argentina]], [[Bolivia]], and [[Paraguay]]. Their common name is ''[[quebracho]]'', from [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''quiebra-hacha'', "[[axe]]-breaker", a recognition to the hardness of their [[wood]].

* ''[[Schinopsis balansae|S. balansae]]'' (common name: ''quebracho colorado [[Chaco Province|chaqueño]]'')
* ''S. haenkeana''
* ''S. heterophylla''
* ''[[Schinopsis lorentzii|S. lorentzii]]'', synonym ''S. quebracho-colorado'' (common name: ''quebracho colorado [[Santiago del Estero Province|santiagueño]]'')

''Schinopsis'' is the exclusive food plant of the [[moth]] ''[[Coleophora|Coleophora haywardi]]''.

[[Category:Sapindales]]
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