Not to be confused with Bulnesia sarmientoi, another tree known as palo santo.
Bursera graveolens
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Clade:
Rosids
Order:
Sapindales
Family:
Burseraceae
Genus:
Bursera
Species:
B. graveolens
Binomial name
Bursera graveolens
(Kunth) Triana & Planch.
Synonyms
List
Elaphrium graveolens Kunth 1824
Amyris caranifera Willd. ex Engl.
Amyris graveolens Spreng.
Bursera anderssonii B.L.Rob.
Bursera graveolens var. pilosa Engl.
Bursera graveolens var. pubescens Engl.
Bursera graveolens var. villosula Cuatrec.
Bursera pilosa (Engl.) L.Riley
Bursera tatamaco (Tul.) Triana & Planch.
Elaphrium pilosum (Engl.) Rose
Elaphrium tatamaco Tul.
Spondias edmonstonei Hook.f.
Terebinthus graveolens (Kunth) Rose
Terebinthus pilosa (Engl.) Rose
Bursera malacophylla B.L.Rob.
Bursera graveolens, known in Spanish as palo santo ("holy stick"), is a wild tree native from the Yucatán Peninsula to Peru and Venezuela.[2]
Burseragraveolens is found in the seasonally dry tropical forests of Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador,[3] and on the Galápagos Islands.[4] The tree belongs to the same family (Burseraceae) as frankincense and myrrh. It is widely used in ritual purification and as folk medicine for stomach ache, as a sudorific, and as liniment for rheumatism.[2] Aged heartwood is rich in terpenes such as limonene and α-terpineol.
^Salas, Esteban Martínez; Samain, Marie-Stéphanie (March 2019). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Bursera graveolens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
^ abNakanishi, Tsutomu; Yuka INATOMI; Hiroko MURATA; Kaori SHIGETA; Naoki IIDA; Akira INADA; Jin MURATA; Miguel Angel Perez FARRERA; Munekazu IINUMA; Toshiyuki TANAKA; Shogo TAJIMA; Naoto OKU (February 2005). "A new and known cytotoxic aryltetralin-type lignans from stems of Bursera graveolens". Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 53 (2): 229–31. doi:10.1248/cpb.53.229. PMID 15684524. Retrieved 2011-10-31.[permanent dead link]
^"Bursera graveolens". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
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