Plant Details

Accepted name:: Commiphora gileadensis (L.) C.Chr. [Burseraceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
balm of gilead	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
balm of oilead	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
balm-of-gilead	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
balsaan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
balsam mecca	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
balsam of gilead	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
balsam of mecca	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
balsam tree	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
balsamum	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
basham	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
bashām	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
baume de gilead	Other	Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000)
gilead	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
hab ul balesan	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
hab-e-balsaan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
mecca balsam	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
mecca myrrh	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
mecca myrrh tree	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
mekkabalsamträd	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mekke balsam agaci	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
mur makki	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
myrrh	Other	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
myrrhe	Other	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
ood-ebalsaan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
opobalsamum	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
roghan-e-balsaan	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
sukof	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994)
بشام	Other	Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
ماشب	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Oleo-gum-resin		U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
gum, resin		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000)
Whole plant		Trad. Persian Med. Pl. Database (Rahimi et al., 2018)
Root		Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
fruit, wood	oil	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
oleo-gum-resin		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
exudate		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
wood exudate	essential oil	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 22 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Amyris gileadensis L. Opobalsamum: [s.p.] (1764).
Balsamodendrum opobalsamum (L.) Kunth ex DC. Prodr. 2: 76 (1825).
Commiphora opobalsamum (L.) Engl. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 4: 15 (1883).
Commiphora opobalsamum var. ehrenbergiana (O.Berg) Engl. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 4: 17 (1883).
Amyris opobalsamum L. Opobalsamum: [s.p.] (1764).
Balsamea gileadensis (L.) Oken Allg. Naturgesch. 3(3): 1758 (1841).
Balsamea meccanensis Gled. Berl. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Schr. 3: 127 (1782).
Balsamea opobalsamum (L.) Baill. Traité Bot. Méd. Phan. 2: 953 (1884).
Balsamodendrum ehrenbergianum O.Berg Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 20: 163 (1862).
Balsamodendrum gileadense (L.) Kunth ex DC. Prodr. 2: 76 (1825).
Balsamus libanotus Stackh. Extr. Bruce' s Travels: 11 (1815).
Balsamus meccanensis Stackh. Extr. Bruce' s Travels: 12 (1815).
Balsamus theophrasti Stackh. Extr. Bruce' s Travels: 11 (1815).
Commiphora albiflora Engl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 34: 310 (1904).
Commiphora ancistrophora Chiov. Fl. Somala 2: 111 (1932).
Commiphora anfractuosa Chiov. Fl. Somala 2: 99 (1932).
Commiphora cassan Chiov. Fl. Somala 2: 122 (1932).
Commiphora coronillifolia Chiov. Fl. Somala 2: 101 (1932).
Commiphora gillettii Chiov. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1941: 135 (1941).
Commiphora microcarpa Chiov. Fl. Somala 2: 126 (1932).
Commiphora suckertiana Chiov. Atti Soc. Naturalisti Mat. Modena 66: 7 (1934).
Commiphora velutina Chiov. Res. Sci. Somalia Ital. 1: 47 (1916).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Amyris gileadensis L.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Balsamodendron opobalsamum Kunth.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Commiphora gileadensis	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Commiphora gileadensis (L.) C. Chr.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2019 (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances 2024 (WHO-UMC, 2024)
Commiphora gileadensis (L.) C. Christ.	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
Commiphora gileadensis (L.) C.Chr.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Commiphora gileadensis (L.) C.chr.	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Commiphora gileadensis (L.) Christensen	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Commiphora gileadensis (L.) Christman	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Commiphora gileadensis (L.)C.Chr.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Commiphora gileadensis L.	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
Commiphora opobalsam	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Commiphora opobalsamum	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) 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)
Commiphora opobalsamum (L.) Engl.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Commiphora opobalsamum (L.)Engl.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Commiphora opobalsamum (L.)Engl. ehrenbergianum (Berg.)Engl.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Commiphora opobalsamum (Le Moine) Engl.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998)
Commiphora opobalsamum Engl.	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacop.: Liste A (2000) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Commiphora opobalsamum L.	Med. Pl. in the Medit.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
Commiphora opobasamum	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)

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