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
  
• masticshrub   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• mastictree   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• mustik   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Arabic
  
• arbre au mastic   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• lentisque   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Mastix-Pistazie   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Mastixbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Mastixstrauch   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• corno-capra   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• dentischio   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• lentisco   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• alfostigueiro   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Portuguese
  
• almecegueira   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• aroeira-da-praia   (Source: Ecocrop [http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Pistacia&quantity=5]) – Portuguese
  
• almácigo   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Spanish
  
• lentisco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• mastixbuske   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: preservative   (fide web document)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of pistachio   (based on potential hybridization with Pistacia vera fide Wild Crop Rel Tem Fr 119. 2011)
  
• 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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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:

• Al-Saghir, M. G. 2010. Perspective on chromosome numbers in the genus Pistacia L. (Anacardiaceae). Int. J. Pl. Breed. Genetics 4:153–157. [this review questioned the report of 2n=24 for Pistacia lentiscus and two other species, and also 2n=28 for P. atlantica, because it will requiere two reductions to happen in the genus].
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1948–1976. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. Delhi.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Furia, T. E. 1980. Handbook of food additives, 2nd edition. 2:38. [re. flavoring food addative].
• Golan-Goldhirsch, A. et al. 2004. Genetic relationships among Mediterranean Pistacia species evaluated by RAPD and AFLP markers. Pl. Syst. Evol. 246:9–18.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hormaza, J. I. & A. Wünsch. 2011. Chapter 6. Pistacia. In: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, temperate fruits. 119–128.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jarvis, C. et al. Linnaean plant name typification project (on-line resource).
• Kafkas, S. & R. Perl-Treves. 2002. Interspecific relationships in Pistacia based on RAPD fingerprinting. HortScience 37:168–171.
• Kafkas, S. 2006. Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Pistacia by AFLP markers. Pl. Syst. Evol. 262:113–124.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Parfitt, D. E. & M. L. Badenes. 1997. Phylogeny of the genus Pistacia as determined from analysis of the chloroplast genome. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94:7987–7992.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Yi, T. et al. 2008. Phylogenetics and reticulate evolution in Pistacia (Anacardiaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 95:241–251.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pistacia lentiscus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pistacia lentiscus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pistacia lentiscus.

Check other web resources 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.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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