Commiphora
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Commiphora

Balsam of Gilead
myrrh

Hierarchical position of the Genus Commiphora

   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  Commiphora Jacq.
common name: myrrh
  

Named members of the Genus Commiphora

1
   Species  habessinica (Berg) Engler
common name: Abyssinian myrrh
2
   Species  opobalsamum (L.) Engler
common name: Mecca myrrh, Balsam of Gilead
  

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

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

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

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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