Commiphora pyracanthoides
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Leaves and spines
04 Apr 2015
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Habit
04 Apr 2015
| Family: | Burseraceae |
| Full name: | Commiphora pyracanthoides Engl. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Gewone kanniedood, Kanniedood, Kurkbossie |
| English common name(s): | Firethorn corkwood, (Small) common corkwood |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Dioecious or polygamous many-stemmed shrub, 0.5-3 m tall, occasionally a small tree with single trunk up to 3 m tall; bark greyish green or yellowish green, flaking in small yellowish papery pieces; young branchlets glabrous, spine-tipped. Leaves usually simple but on long shoots often trifoliolate with smaller lateral leaflets, with long glandular hairs at base but otherwise glabrous, green, subsessile, margin finely crenate-serrate, occasionally almost entire, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate, lamina of simple leaves/terminal leaflet elliptic, narrowly obovate or obovate, (16-)25(-55) x (8-)16(-32) mm, lateral leaflets narrowly elliptic or elliptic, (4-)8(-12) x (2-)3(-10) mm. Inflorescence: reduced cymes of flowers borne in clusters. Flowers unisexual or bisexual, hypogynous. Pedicel 0.5-1 mm long, pedicel and calyx without glandular hairs (glabrous). Disc 4-lobed, folded to form 4 large lobes towards the outside, inside of lobes deeply grooved, not adnate to perianth. Stamens 8. Fruit ellipsoid to subglobose, 11 x 8 x 7 mm, glabrous; putamen rugose, with a hump on less convex race; pseudo-aril red, with 4 arms of equal length reaching almost to apex of putamen. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
