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Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Colebr.

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Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Colebr.
Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Colebr.
Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Colebr.
Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Colebr.
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🗒 Synonyms
synonymBoswellia glabra Roxb.
synonymBoswellia serrata var. glabra (Roxb.) A.W. Bennett
synonymBoswellia thurifera Roxb. ex Flem.
synonymChloroxylon dupada Buch.-Ham.
synonymLibanotus asiaticus Stackh.
synonymLibanus thuriferus Colebr.
🗒 Common Names
Assamese
  • Dhuna-goch
English
  • Frankincense
  • Incense Tree
  • Indian frankincense
  • Indian frankincense tree
  • Indian oilbanum tree
  • Indian Olibanum
  • Olibanum
Gujarati
  • સલાઈ ગૂગળ Salaai Gugul
  • સાલેડી Saaledi
Hindi
  • Salai
  • शल्लकी Shallaki
Kannada
  • ಗುಗ್ಗುಳ ಮರ Guggula Mara
Malayalam
  • Kungilyam
  • Kunthurukkam
  • Mukkana
  • Mukundam
  • Palankam
  • Parangisambrani
  • Salamaram
  • Sambrani
  • കുങ്ങില്യം Kungilyam
Marathi
  • कुरुंद Kurunda
  • धुपाळी Dhupali
  • धूपसाळी Dhupasali
  • सालफळी Salaphali
  • साळई Salai
  • साळी Sali
Oriya
  • Salai
Other
  • Dhoopa Mara
  • Indian Frankincense Tree
  • Indian Olibanum
  • Indian Olibanum Tree
  • Kundhirikam
  • Kungiliyam
  • Salai Tree
  • Sambarani
  • Vaalugam
  • Vellai kundhirikam
  • ਸਾਲਹੀ Salhi
  • ਸਾਲ੍ਹੇ Salhe
Pali
  • सल्लकी Sallaki
Sanskrit
  • कुरुन्द Kurunda
  • गुग्गुल Guggula
  • पार्वती Parvati
  • पालंक Palank
  • भीषण Bhishan
  • ऱ्हादिनी Hradini
  • शल्लकी Shallaki
  • सल्लकी Sallaki
  • स्रुवा Sruva
  • हस्तिनशना Hastinashana
Tamil
  • Kungiliyam
  • குங்கிலியம் Kunkiliyam
  • குமஞ்சம் Kumancam
  • பறங்கிச்சாம்பிராணி Paranki-c-campi-rani
  • மரத்துவெள்ளை Marattu-vellai
  • வெள்ளிக்கீரை Vellai-k-kirai
Telugu
  • గుగ్గిలము Guggilamu
  • పరంగిసాంబ్రాణిచెట్టు Parangi-sambrani-chettu
  • సల్లకి Sallaki
📚 Overview
Overview
Summary
Tree
Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
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    Brief
    Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Tree
    Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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      Diagnostic Keys
      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.
      Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
      Attributions Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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        Habit: Tree
        G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
        Attributions G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
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          📚 Natural History
          Cyclicity
          Flowering and fruiting: January-August
          Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
          Attributions Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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            Morphology

            Growth Form

            Tree
            Tree
            Field Tips

            Bark whitish smooth with strong-smelling resin.

            Flower

            In axillary panicles, white. Flowering from February-March.

            Fruit

            A drupe, three-four angled. Seed 1. Fruiting April onwards.

            Leaf Apices

            Tapering-acute

            Leaf arrangement

            Apically clustered

            Leaf Bases

            Cuneate

            Leaf Margins

            Sub-entire

            Leaf Shapes

            Lanceolate

            Leaf Types

            Imparipinnate

            Habit

            A medium sized deciduous tree.

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              Miscellaneous Details
              Notes: Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, Dry Deciduous Forests
              G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
              Attributions G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
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                📚 Habitat and Distribution
                General Habitat
                Forests
                Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
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                  Dry deciduous forests
                  Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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                    Occasional in the hills on the lower dry deciduous slopes to 900 m, in gravelly poor soils in full sun. Central and Peninsular India.
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                      Description
                      Global Distribution

                      India: Assam, Bihar, Maharastra, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan

                      Indian Distribution

                      Western Assam

                      Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
                      Attributions Dr. Chandra Barooah & Iftikher Ahmed (2014) Assam Science Technology and Environment Council.
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                        Global Distribution

                        India

                        Indian distribution

                        State - Kerala, District/s: Idukki

                        Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
                        Attributions Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
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                          Maharashtra: Common throughout Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Coorg, N. Kanara, Shimoga Kerala: Idukki Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Dindigul, Salem, Tiruchchirappalli, Tiruvannamalai, Viluppuram
                          G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
                          Attributions G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
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                            📚 Occurrence
                            No Data
                            📚 Uses and Management
                            Uses
                            Medicinal
                            Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
                            Attributions Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
                            Contributors 
                            Status UNDER_CREATION
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                              Different species of bees like Apis dorsata and Trigona sp. collect resin from the bark. The resin is collected and used as incense for religious rituals.
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                                📚 Information Listing
                                References
                                1. Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983; Matthew, 1983, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
                                1. 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.
                                2. Boswellia glabra Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 207. 1811; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 168(120). 1915.
                                3. Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Coleb. var. glabra (Roxb.) Bennett in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 528. 1875.
                                Information Listing > References
                                1. Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983; Matthew, 1983, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002, Flora of Maharastra State Dicotyledones, Vol I, Lakshminarasimhan P. & Prasanna P. V, 2000
                                2. 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.
                                3. Boswellia glabra Roxb., Pl. Corom. t. 207. 1811; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 168(120). 1915.
                                4. Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Coleb. var. glabra (Roxb.) Bennett in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 528. 1875.

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                                📚 Meta data
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                                🐾 Taxonomy
                                RootRoot
                                KingdomPlantae
                                PhylumTracheophyta
                                ClassMagnoliopsida
                                OrderSapindales
                                FamilyBurseraceae
                                GenusBoswellia
                                SpeciesBoswellia serrata Roxb. ex Colebr.
                                📊 Temporal Distribution
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