Taxon:
Boswellia sacra Flueck.
Summary
Place of publication:
Pharmak. 31. 1867
Verified:
11/27/2001
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) www.skud.info
- Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986-1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
- Cufodontis, G. 1953-1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. Note: = Boswellia carteri Birdw.
- Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs
- Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage
- Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2
- Ghazanfar, S. A. 2003-. Flora of Oman
- Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989-. Flora of Ethiopia Note: mentions
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
- Miller, A. G. & T. A. Cope. 1996-. Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra. Note: mentions
- Personal Care Products Council. INCI URL: http://www.personalcarecouncil.org/public/what-inci
- Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). URL: http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
- Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
- Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
- Thulin, M. & A. M. Warfa. 1987. The frankincense trees (Boswellia spp., Burseraceae) of northern Somalia and southern Arabia. Kew Bull. 43:487.
- Thulin, M., ed. 1993-. Flora of Somalia.
- Zohary, M. et al. 1980-. Conspectus florae orientalis.
Common names
English
frankincense – olibanum-tree – French
arbre à encens – oliban – German
Weihrauchbaum – Weihrauchpflanze – Italian
olibano – Somali
moxor – Spanish
árbol del incensio – olibán – Swedish
äkta rökelseträd – Transcribed Chinese
ru xiang shu – Transliterated Arabic
mogar – shajerat al-luban –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Africa | Northeast Tropical Africa | Somalia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Arabian Peninsula | Oman | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Arabian Peninsula | Yemen | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
Native
Africa
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NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Somalia
Asia-Temperate
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ARABIAN PENINSULA:
Oman, Yemen
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Materials | gum/resin | | Thulin, M., ed. 1993-. Flora of Somalia. |
Medicines | folklore | | Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |