Commiphora saxicola
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Habit
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Fruit
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Habit
20 Sep 2013
| Family: | Burseraceae |
| Full name: | Commiphora saxicola Engl. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Rots-kanniedood, Balsembos, Kanniedood |
| English common name(s): | Rock commiphora, Rock corkwood |
| Synonym(s): | Commiphora dulcis Engl. |
| Status: | Endemic |
| Description: | Dioecious shrub-like tree or small tree 0.2-4 m tall with trunk 0.1-1.5 m long; bark grey, finely pitted, smooth, not peeling; young ranchlets with glandular hairs but otherwise glabrous, not spine-tipped. Leaves pinnate, 2-6-jugate, with glandular hairs but otherwise glabrous, green; petiole 3-35 mm long; leaflets suborbicular to oblate, (3-)12(-17) x (3-)12(-17) mm; petiolules less than 1 mm long; margin rather coarsely crenate-serrate, apex emarginate or truncate, base cuneate or truncate. Inflorescence: raceme or thyrsoid up to 60 mm long, with glandular hairs. Flowers unisexual, perigynous, subsessile. Pedicel, calyx, corolla and ovary with glandular hairs. Disc obscurely 8-lobed, adnate to hypanthium. Stamens 8. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, 10 x 6 x 6 mm, glabrous; putamen smooth; pseudo-aril orange, cupular without any lobes, covering lower third 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 |
