Taxon: Boswellia sacra Flueck.

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Common names:

• frankincense   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• olibanum-tree   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• mogar   (Source: Kew Bull 43:492.) – Transliterated Arabic
  
• shajerat al-luban   (Source: F Oman ) – Transliterated Arabic
  
• ru xiang shu   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• arbre à encens   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• oliban   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Weihrauchbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Weihrauchpflanze   (Source: S. Reichel, p.c.) – German
  
• olibano   (Source: HerbSpices 2:214.) – Italian
  
• moxor   (Source: Kew Bull 43:492.) – Somali
  
• árbol del incensio   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• olibán   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• äkta rökelseträd   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Materials: gum/resin   (fide F Somalia)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Somalia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen

• also cultivated

References:

• 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).
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. [= 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. (and Eritrea. 2000) [mentions].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Miller, A. G. & T. A. Cope. 1996–. Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra. [mentions].
• 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.
• Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. [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.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Boswellia sacra.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Boswellia sacra.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Boswellia sacra.

Synonyms:

• (=) Boswellia carteri Birdw.
  

Check other web resources for Boswellia sacra Flueck.:

• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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