Taxon: Pistacia lentiscus L.

Common names:

• Chios mastictree   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• lentiscus   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• lentisk   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• mastic   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• mastictree   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• arbre au mastic   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• lentisque   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Mastixbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• almecegueira   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• aroeira   (Source: web document) – Portuguese
  
• lentisco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide web document)
  
• Materials: gum/resin   (mastic for varnish fide Pl Book; Wealth India RM)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Social: masticatory   (resin fide F Iraq; Pl Book)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt [n.]; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Lebanon; Syria [w.]; Turkey [w.]
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [s. & Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• also cultivated

References:

• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. (F Cyprus)
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pistacia lentiscus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pistacia lentiscus. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Pistacia lentiscus L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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