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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Schinopsis balansae''
| status = LR/lc
| image = Schinopsis_balansae.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Source: Libro del Árbol, Tome II, Celulosa Argentina S. A., Buenos Aires, Argentina. Credit: Mr. Jorge Vallmitjana
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Sapindales]]
| familia = [[Anacardiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Schinopsis]]''
| species = '''''S. balansae'''''
| binomial = ''Schinopsis balansae''
| binomial_authority = [[Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler|Engl.]]
}}
'''''Schinopsis balansae''''' is a hardwood [[tree]] which forms forests in the subtropical [[Gran Chaco]] ecoregion of north-eastern [[Argentina]], and [[Paraguay]]. It is also found in the wild [[Pantanal]] [[vegetation]] in [[Brazil]]. Some of its common names are ''quebracho colorado chaqueño'' and ''quebracho santafesino''. Other species, like ''[[Schinopsis lorentzii]]'', bear the general name [[quebracho]] and have similar properties and uses. ''S. balansae'' shares its habitat with a species of the same [[genus]], ''S. heterophylla'', and the two are often confused.
This tree can reach 24 metres in height and more than one metre in diameter. Its trunk is elegant, straight, with a brownish-gray bark. Its wood is extremely heavy ([[relative density]] = 1.2). Its main use is the extraction of quebracho extract, which is 63% pure [[tannin]].
==See also==
*[[List of plants of Pantanal vegetation of Brazil]]
==References==
* {{IUCN2006|assessors=Americas Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Costa Rica, November 1996)|year=1998|id=32017|title=Schinopsis balansae|downloaded=12 May 2006}}
* {{pt icon}} {{cite book | author=Pott, A.; Pott, V.J. | title=Plantas do Pantanal. (Plants of Pantanal) | year=[[1994]] | publisher=[[EMBRAPA]]}} ISBN 85-85007-36-2
[[Category: Sapindales]]
[[Category: wood]]
[[Category: Trees of Argentina]]
[[Category: Trees of Brazil]]
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Schinopsis balansae''
| status = LR/lc
| image = Schinopsis_balansae.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Source: Libro del Árbol, Tome II, Celulosa Argentina S. A., Buenos Aires, Argentina. Credit: Mr. Jorge Vallmitjana
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Sapindales]]
| familia = [[Anacardiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Schinopsis]]''
| species = '''''S. balansae'''''
| binomial = ''Schinopsis balansae''
| binomial_authority = [[Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler|Engl.]]
}}
'''''Schinopsis balansae''''' is a hardwood [[tree]] which forms forests in the subtropical [[Gran Chaco]] ecoregion of north-eastern [[Argentina]], and [[Paraguay]]. It is also found in the wild [[Pantanal]] [[vegetation]] in [[Brazil]]. Some of its common names are ''quebracho colorado chaqueño'' and ''quebracho santafesino''. Other species, like ''[[Schinopsis lorentzii]]'', bear the general name [[quebracho]] and have similar properties and uses. ''S. balansae'' shares its habitat with a species of the same [[genus]], ''S. heterophylla'', and the two are often confused.
This tree can reach 24 metres in height and more than one metre in diameter. Its trunk is elegant, straight, with a brownish-gray bark. Its wood is extremely heavy ([[relative density]] = 1.2). Its main use is the extraction of quebracho extract, which is 63% pure [[tannin]].
==See also==
*[[List of plants of Pantanal vegetation of Brazil]]
==References==
* {{IUCN2006|assessors=Americas Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Costa Rica, November 1996)|year=1998|id=32017|title=Schinopsis balansae|downloaded=12 May 2006}}
* {{pt icon}} {{cite book | author=Pott, A.; Pott, V.J. | title=Plantas do Pantanal. (Plants of Pantanal) | year=[[1994]] | publisher=[[EMBRAPA]]}} ISBN 85-85007-36-2
[[Category: Sapindales]]
[[Category: wood]]
[[Category: Trees of Argentina]]
[[Category: Trees of Brazil]]
