Taxon: Commiphora myrrha (Nees) Engl.

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Common names:

• African myrrh   (Source: Ency CNatIn ) – English
  
• herabol myrrh   (Source: Dict Econ Pl ) – English
  
• myrrh   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Somali myrrh   (Source: Ency CNatIn ) – English
  
• myrrhe   (Source: HerbSpices 2:215.) – French
  
• Myrrhe   (Source: HerbSpices 2:215.) – German
  
• mirra   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Italian
  
• mirra   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (in pharmacy & perfumery fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Materials: gum/resin   (in pharmacy & perfumery fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Djibouti; Ethiopia [e.]; Somalia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya [n.e.]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen

References:

• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Cufodontis, G. 1956. Enumeratio Plantarum Aethiopiae. Spermatophyta. Bull. Jard. Bot. État 26:389. [mentions].
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. [mentions].
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Balsamodendrum myrrha Nees (basionym)
  
• (=) Commiphora molmol (Engl.) Engl.
  
• (=) Commiphora myrrha var. molmol Engl.
  

Check other web resources for Commiphora myrrha (Nees) Engl.:

• 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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