Boswellia

Accepted species 23 Documented here 2 Family Burseraceae

Accepted species 23 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Boswellia serrata Roxb. 25 documented
Boswellia sacra Flück. 8 documented
Boswellia neglecta S.Moore 1 below the evidence gate
Boswellia ameero Balf.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia asplenifolia (Balf.f.) Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia bullata Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia dalzielii Hutch. 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia dioscoridis Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia elongata Balf.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia frereana Birdw. 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia globosa Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia microphylla Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia nana Hepper 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia occulta Thulin, DeCarlo & S.P.Johnson 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia ogadensis Vollesen 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia ovalifoliolata N.P.Balakr. & A.N.Henry 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia papyrifera (Caill. ex Delile) Hochst. 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia pirottae Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia popoviana Hepper 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia rivae Engl. 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia samhaensis Thulin & Scholte 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia scopulorum Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Boswellia socotrana Balf.f. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.