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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Boswellia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Boswellia

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Rosidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Rutanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 311. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Burserales Baskerville pub. Aff. Pl.: 102. 1839.       Familia  Burseraceae Kunth pub. Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 2: 346. Jul 1824, nom. cons.       Genus  Boswellia Roxb. ex Colebr. common name: boswellia

Named members of the Genus Boswellia

1	Species  carteri Birdw. syn. Boswellia sacra
2	Species  frereana Birdw. common name: elemi frankincense
3	Species  glabra Roxb. syn. Boswellia serrata
4	Species  papyrifera (Del. ex Caill.) Hochst. common name: elephant tree
5	Species  sacra Flueckiger common name: frankincense
6	Species  serrata Roxb. ex Colebr. common name: Indian frankincense

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.