Boswellia sacra

Boswellia sacra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Burseraceae
Genus: Boswellia
Species:
B. sacra
Binomial name
Boswellia sacra
Synonyms[4]
  • Boswellia bhaw-dajiana Birdw.
  • B. bhaw-dajiana var. serrulata Engl.
  • B. carteri Birdw.
  • B. carteri var. subintegra Engl.
  • B. carteri var. undulatocrenata Engl.
  • B. undulatocrenata (Engl.) Engl.

Boswellia sacra, also known as Boswellia carteri and others, and commonly called the frankincense tree or the olibanum tree, is a tree in the genus Boswellia, in the Burseraceae family, from which frankincense, a resinous dried sap, is harvested.[5] The olibanum tree is plant native to the countries of Oman and Yemen, in the south of the Arabian Peninsula, and to Somalia, in the Horn of Africa.[5]

  1. ^ Thulin, M. (1998). "Boswellia sacra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1998: e.T34533A9874201. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1998.RLTS.T34533A9874201.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Name - Boswellia sacra Flueck". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved November 25, 2012.
  3. ^ Boswellia sacra was originally described and published in Lehrbuch der Pharmakognosie des Pflanzenreiches. 31. 1867. (as cited in Flückiger & Hanbury's Pharmacographia). Freidrich A. Flückiger; Daniel Hanbury, F.R.S. (1874). Pharmacographia, a history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India. London: Macmillan and Co. p. 120. Retrieved November 24, 2012. Lehrbuch der pharmakognosie Flückiger Boswellia sacra.
  4. ^ "Boswellia sacra Flueck.". World Flora Online. Retrieved December 29, 2023.
  5. ^ a b "Boswellia sacra". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved November 24, 2012.