Dioecious shrub ; up to 1 m tall with grey-brown bark . Stems and branches prostrate and arching down to the ground , aromatic ; lateral shoots ending in spines . Leaves alternate , sessile , 1-3-foliate , in fascicles of 3 to 5 , arising from a short shoot ; leaflets 7-11 × 3-8 mm , obovate , irregularly toothed at the apex to about the middle of the lamina , apex obtuse , base rounded to cuneate , glabrous except for a few hairs at the base of the lamina . Inflorescences on short lateral shoots . Flowers reddish-yellow , ± 4 mm , sessile ; male flowers: calyx 2-2 . 2 mm , 4-lobed above ; corolla 4-lobed , lobes narrowly-oblong ; stamens 8 , 4 long alternating with 4 short ones ; femal flowers: calyx and corolla same as the in the male flowers , 8 rudimentary stamens . Fruit drupe , 5-8 mm in diameter , subglobose , with 2 fertile locules , pink-purple and fleshy when mature , splitting into 2 valves , 1-seeded . Seeds 4-rigded , with an orange pseudaril
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Critically Endangered (CR) - Global Assessment
Frequent
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Balsamodendrum wightii Arn.
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Indian Bdellium-tree
Gugal
Guggul
Gugul
Mukul Myrrh Tree
In Omani studies: Ghazanfar (2007) wrote that: "In the eastern Hajar region of northern Oman, the gum-resin is used for chest and liver ailments, and as soap for the final bath given to the dead. C. wightii is commonly called Arabian myrrh or gum guggul in India, where it is recorded to be used as paste for plaster for mending bones; it is also recorded to have anti-inflammatory activities". (Ref. Flora of Oman).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2007). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.2: Crassulaceae – Apiaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 36). ISBN 9789072619747 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *http://www.bihrmann.com *http://www.efloras.org *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
