This member of the Burseraceae family was described by Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler in 1881.
It is found in Oaxaca, Mexico, growing in well-drained soil with some water and lots of sun. The stem can grow to 30 centimetres or more in diameter, and will reach from six to eight meters. The genera is n amed after: Joachim Burser, German/Danish botanist,1583-1639.
The species name after Henri Guillaume Galeotti, 1814 – 1858, a French-Belgian botanist, geologist and plant collector in Mexico of Italian parentage born in Paris. He specialized in the study of the family Cactaceae.

