Plant Details

Accepted name:: Pistacia terebinthus L. [Anacardiaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
baneh	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
botm	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
chian turpentine	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
elk-ol-botm	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
habbat-ol-khazra	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
menengic	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
palestinian pistachio	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
pistachio galls	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
qalafournis	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
saqqez	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
terebinth	Other	Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
terebinth gum	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
terebinto	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
tremithia	Other	Wild Edible Pl. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
tremithiá	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
tremithkiá	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
turpentine	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
turpentine resin	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
τρεμιθιά	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
τρεμιθκιά	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
بطم	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
بطم عريفة	Other	Med. Pl. in C Mountains, Jordan (Oran & Al-Eisawi, 2015)
بنه	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
حبّة الخضرا	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
سقز	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
علك البطم	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
‫بطم فلسطيني‬	Other	National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Fruit		Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Fruits, stems	young stems	Wild Edible Pl. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
stem shoots, fruits		Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009)
fruit	oil	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
fruit, tender tops	oil	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
resin	oil	Med. Pl. in C Mountains, Jordan (Oran & Al-Eisawi, 2015)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 12 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Pistacia palaestina Boiss. Diagn. Pl. Orient. 9: 1 (1849).
Lentiscus terebinthus Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 153 (1891).
Lentiscus vulgaris Garsault Fig. Pl. Méd.: t. 87 (1764), opus utique rej.
Pistacia crassifolia Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 172 (1796), nom. superfl.
Pistacia terebinthina St.-Lag. Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon 7: 132 (1880), orth. var.
Pistacia terebinthus var. angustifolia Lecoq & Lamotte in M.Lamotte, Prodr. Fl. Plat. Centr. 1: 180 (1877).
Pistacia terebinthus var. heterophylla DC. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck & A.P.de Candolle, Fl. Franç., éd. 3, 6: 585 (1815).
Pistacia terebinthus var. macrocarpa Zohary Palestine J. Bot., Jerusalem Ser. 5: 209 (1952).
Pistacia terebinthus var. oxycarpa Zohary Palestine J. Bot., Jerusalem Ser. 5: 209 (1952).
Pistacia terebinthus subsp. palaestina (Boiss.) Engl. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 4: 290 (1883).
Terebinthus communis Dum.Cours. Bot. Cult. 3: 575 (1802).
Terebinthus vulgaris Dum.Cours. Bot. Cult., ed. 2, 6: 222 (1811).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Pistacia palaestina	Med. Pl. in C Mountains, Jordan (Oran & Al-Eisawi, 2015)
Pistacia palaestina Boiss.	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998) National List of Med. Pl. in Palestine (Ali-Shtayeh et al., 2014)
Pistacia terebinthus	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Pistacia terebinthus L.	Ethnobot. in W Granada Province, Spain (Benítez et al., 2010) Food Pl. in Seven Circum-Medit. Areas (Hadjichambis et al., 2009) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013) Med. Pl. in the Medit.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024) Wild Edible Pl. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Pistacia therebinthus Scop.	Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sardinian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sicilian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009)

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