Boswellia occulta Thulin, DeCarlo & S.P.Johnson
, Phytotaxa 394(3): 219 (2019).- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77195494-1
- Publication
- Phytotaxa
- Collation
- 394(3): 219
- Date of Publication
- 1 Mar 2019
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Burseraceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- Ahmed Mohamed Dhunkaal s.n.
- Locality
- Sanaag Region: Ceel Afweyn District, Afdhudhubeed village near Ceel Dibir town, Daba Celdero, 440 m
- Collection Date
- 12 Oct 2018
- Type Herbaria
- holotype HARG
isotype UPS V-933191 - Distribution Of Types
- Somalia (Northeast Tropical Africa, Africa)
Nomenclatural Notes
[epublished]
Remarks
doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.394.3.3 The epithet “occulta” (from Latin “occultus”, hidden) refers to the history of this species that, although used for frankincense production by many generations of local harvesters, has been unknown to science until now.