Commiphora glandulosa
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Habit (dry season)
29 Oct 2005
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Bark
29 Oct 2005
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Spiny branch ends
29 Oct 2005
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Habit (rainy season)
01 May 2006
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Leaves
01 May 2006
| Family: | Burseraceae |
| Full name: | Commiphora glandulosa Schinz |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Groot gewone kanniedood |
| English common name(s): | Tall common corkwood, Tall firethorn corkwood |
| Synonym(s): | Commiphora berberidifolia Engl. Commiphora lugardae N.E.Br. fide Fl. S. Africa 18: Part 3: 11 Commiphora pyracanthoides Engl. subsp. glandulosa (Schinz) Wild Commiphora ruahensis Mattick Commiphora seineri Engl. fide Fl. S. Africa 18: Part 3: 11 Commiphora thermitaria Lisowski, Malaisse & Symoens |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Usually a single-stemmed tree. Bark greyish-green to yellowish-green flaking in small papery yellowish pieces; young branches hairless, spine-tipped. Leaves clustered on small lateral branchlets, usually simple (1-foliolate), sometimes with 2 very small reduced lateral leaflets, obovate to elliptic, up to 6.5 cm long, more or less shiny green, hairless except for long glandular hairs near the base; margin more or less distinctly scalloped; petiole very short to absent. Flowers in small clusters on the spur-branchlets, pink to reddish, glandular hairy on the calyx, appearing before the leaves. Fruit ellipsoid to almost round, up to 1.4 cm long, red when ripe, splitting to reveal a black seed with a 4-lobed bright red pseudo-aril. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) Polygamous or dioecious tree with a single trunk, 2-10 m tall, occasionally shrub-like; bark yellowish green or greyish grequ, 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 crenate-serrate, occasionally almost entire, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate, lamina of simple leaves/terminal leaflet obovate or elliptic (20-)35(-65) x (12-)25(-45) mm, lateral leaflets elliptic, (8-)15(-30) x (4-)7(-15) mm. Inflorescence: reduced cymes or flowers borne in clusters. Flowers bisexual, occasionally unisexual, hypogynous. Pedicel 0.5-1 mm long, pedicel and calyx with large glandular hairs. Disc 4-lobed, not folded, inside of lobes not grooved, not adnate to perianth. Stamens 8. Fruit subglobose, 14 x 13 x 12 mm, glabrous; putamen rugose, with a hump on less convex face; pseudo-aril red, with 4 arms of equal length reaching almost to apex of putamen. (from JSTOR website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie |
| Content last updated: | 13 Mar 2012 |
