Boswellia serrata Roxb. Ex Coleb.: A Threatened Tree
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Boswellia serrata Roxb. ex Coleb. is commonly known as Indian Olibanum or Indian Frankincense tree. It belongs to the family Burseraceae. The tree is confined to Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest of India. It grows at altitudes up to 1,150 m in regions with annual temperatures between 0-45°C and annual rainfall between 500-2,000 mm. B. serrata has been listed in the threatened species of India. The principal threats of this species are slow growth coupled with poor regeneration. However, the population trends and habitat trends are stable. Due to its exudations of volatile oil, resin and gum, the tree has attained commercial significance. The oil obtained from this tree is very similar to turpentine oil and found suitable for paint making, varnish and used as printing ink in textile industries and in making distempers. It is a unique non coniferous source of turpentine employed for the manufacture of paints and varnishes. The resin obtained from this tree is used for preparation of varnishes. The tree exudes of B. serrata resembles Canada balsam in colour and consistency. It is mainly used for medicinal purposes and incense. A detailed review covering its taxonomy and nomenclature, distribution in India, reproductive biology, wood properties, processing and harvesting, genetic resources available, reasons for its deterioration, and its uses is presented in this article.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".