Plant Details

Accepted name:: Commiphora kataf (Forssk.) Engl. [Burseraceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
abyssinian myrrh	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
arbre à myrrhe	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
bal	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
barakande	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
bdellium	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
bisabol myrrh	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
bol	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
bola	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
camuttirakkukkil	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cayintavakukkulu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
cintukukkil	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
dashi ‘biskiti	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
gandharsh	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
guban myrrh	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
gummi myrrha	Pharmaceutical	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
habak-hadi	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
habaq-hagar-ad	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
heerabol myrrh	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
heerbol	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
hirabol myrrh	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
mbebe	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
mbele	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
mo yao	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
molmol	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
morr	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
morrh	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
mur	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
murr	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
myrr	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
myrrh	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
myrrha	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
myrrhe des somalis	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
myrrhenbaum	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
männliche myrrhe	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
ogo myrrh	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
opopanax	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
opopanax tree	Other	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015)
opoponaco	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
somali myrrh	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
sweet myrrh	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
turari	Other	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
oleo-gum-resin		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
stem, branch	dried oleo-gum	WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007)
wood exudate	essential oil	ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)

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

Balsamodendrum kataf (Forssk.) Kunth ex DC. Prodr. 2: 76 (1825).
Commiphora erythraea (Ehrenb.) Engl. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 4: 20 (1883).
Commiphora holtziana Engl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 34: 310 (1904).
Amyris kataf Forssk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 80 (1775).
Balsamea erythraea (Ehrenb.) Engl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 1: 42 (1880).
Balsamea kataf (Forssk.) Engl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 1: 42 (1880).
Balsamophloeos kataf (Forssk.) O.Berg Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 20: 163 (1862).
Commiphora allophylla Sprague Hooker's Icon. Pl. 32: t. 3110 (1927).
Commiphora holtziana subsp. microphylla J.B.Gillett Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Burserac.: 81 (1991).
Commiphora kataf subsp. turkanensis J.B.Gillett Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Burserac.: 81 (1991).
Commiphora somalensis Engl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 15: 96 (1892).
Hemprichia erythraea Ehrenb. Linnaea 4: 396 (1829).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Balsamodendron kataf (Forssk.) Kunth ex DC.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Commiphora erythraea	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) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Commiphora erythraea (Ehrenb.) Engl.	Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015)
Commiphora erythraea Engl.	Commercially Important African Med. Pl. (Van Wyk, 2015) WHO Monog. Med. Pl. 3 (WHO, 2007) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Commiphora holtziana Engl.	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Commiphora kataf (Forssk.) Engl.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Commiphora kataf Engl.	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Commiphora kataf Engler	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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