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Family: Burseraceae (frankincense and myrrh family)
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About 16 genera and 500 species (mainly tropics), with
one genus, Commiphora, and 40 species native to southern Africa and a
further genus and species cultivated in the region.
Genera native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).
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Commiphora
About 200 species (mainly Africa but
also Arabian Peninsula and India), with 40 species
native to southern Africa. |
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Other genera, cultivated in southern Africa
List from Glen (2002).
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Canarium
The Incense tree
Canarium
schweinfurthii
originates from tropical Africa and
is cultivated in southern Africa. |
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Species from which perfumes are derived
(frankincense, from Somalia)
Commiphora abyssinica, C. molmol
and some other species (myrrh, used in incense and perfumes; cultivated in
Arabia and Ethiopia)
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