Stephen Johnson, CC0, via GBIF · observed growing wild

Boswellia occulta Thulin, De Carlo & S.P.Johnson

Burseraceae

No habitat climate 1 photograph Cactus or succulent

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About the genus · Boswellia

Boswellia is a genus of trees in the family Burseraceae, known for its fragrant resin. The biblical incense frankincense is an extract from the resin of the tree Boswellia sacra, and is now produced also from B. frereana. Boswellia species are moderate-sized flowering plants, including both trees and shrubs.

Text from Wikipedia, “Boswellia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Burseraceae

Described by

Thulin, De Carlo & S.P.Johnson

Native to

Somalia

Wild records

1 in range· 1 open

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Boswellia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeSomalia

Kew's description“tree” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 1 georeferenced record inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species.

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Boswellia occulta, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Comparison of Volatile Constituents Present in Commercial and Lab-Distilled Frankincense (Boswellia carteri) Essential Oils for Authentication

Pawan Kumar Ojha, Darbin Kumar Poudel, Anil Rokaya, Rakesh Satyal (2022) · Plants

Organic Certification is Not Enough: The Case of the Methoxydecane Frankincense

Stephen Johnson, Anjanette DeCarlo, Prabodh Satyal, Noura S. Dosoky (2019) · Plants

Analytical investigations on Boswellia occulta essential oils

Marina Ayubova, Zahra Osman Guelleh, Moktar Osman Guelleh, Hugues Brévard (2019) · Phytochemistry

Boswellia occulta (Burseraceae), a new species of frankincense tree from Somalia (Somaliland)

Mats Thulin, Anjanette DeCarlo, Stephen Johnson (2019) · Phytotaxa

The Chemical Composition of Boswellia occulta Oleogum Resin Essential Oils

Stephen Johnson, Anjanette DeCarlo, Prabodh Satyal, Noura S. Dosoky (2019) · Natural Product Communications

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