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Boswellia serrata
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Family:
BURSERACEAE
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Citation: Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Coleb., Asiat. Res. 9: 379. t. 5. 1807; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 528. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 168(120). 1915; V. Chithra & A.N. Henry in Hajra et al., Fl. India 4: 432. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 59. 1999; A.N. Henry & V. Chithra in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 627. 2005.
Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Coleb. var. glabra (Roxb.) Bennett in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 528. 1875.
Boswellia glabra Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 207. 1811; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 168(120). 1915.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kungilyam, Kunthurukkam, Mukundam, Mukkana, Palankam, Parangisambrani, Sambrani, Salamaram
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Tamil name(s):
Shallaki
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English name(s):
Indian frankincense tree, Indian oilbanum tree, Olibanum, Frankincense
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Description:
Deciduous trees, to 20 m high, bark yellowish-white with dark blotches, exfoliations thin, papery, smooth flakes; blaze red; exudation white gum-resin; branchlets pubescent. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, apically clustered, estipulate; rachis 11-44 cm, slender, pubescent, swollen at base; leaflets 15-31, sessile or subsessile, opposite or subopposite; lamina 0.8-9.5 x 0.5-3.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, oblong-lanceolate, oblong-ovate, base oblique, acute, apex obtuse, margin entire or crenate, chartaceous, glabrous; lateral nerves 8-14 pairs, pinnate, faint, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, small, white, in axillary or subterminal fascicled racemes; calyx pubescent, tube broadly campanulate, short; lobes 5-7, persistent; petals 5-7, 7 x 2.5-4 mm, white, ovate-oblong, shortly clawed, inflexed at apex pubescent out side except margin; disc annular, crenate, free from calyx; stamens 10, free, filaments alternately longer and shorter connective produced beyond the anther lobe; ovary sessile, superior, ovoid, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style to 3 mm, grooved; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a drupe, ovoid, trigonous; pyrenes 3; seed 3.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
January-August
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District(s):
Idukki
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Dry deciduous forests
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Distribution:
India
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Pink, White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
250-900
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Localities:
Gellimala
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