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Balsamodendrum habessinicum

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Identification
Balsamodendrum habessinicum O.Berg [family BURSERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Commiphora habessinica (O.Berg) Engl. [family BURSERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Commiphora habessinica
  • Balsamodendrum habessinicum

Flora

Entry for Commiphora madagascariensis Jacq. [family BURSERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 2, Part 1, page 263, (1963) Author: H. Wild
Names
Commiphora madagascariensis Jacq. [family BURSERACEAE], Hort. Schoenbr. 2: 66, t. 249 (1797); in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 19a: 436 (1931). — White, F.F.N.R.: 176, fig. 34C (1962). TAB. 49 fig. A. Type a cultivated plant, country of origin not known.
Balsamodendrum habessinicum O. Berg [family BURSERACEAE], in Bot. Zeit. 20: 161 (1862). Type from Ethiopia.
Balsamodendrum africanum var. habessinicum O. Berg Oliv. [family BURSERACEAE], F.T.A. 1: 325 (1868). Type as above.
Commiphora habessinica O. Berg Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 10 (1883); Bot. Jahrb. 48: 478, fig. 2Q (1912); in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 19a: 436, fig. 205 (1931) “abyssinica”. — Troupin, F.C.B. 7: 136, fig. 2A (1958). Type as above.
Commiphora subsessilifolia Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 34: 303 (1904). Type from Tanganyika.
Commiphora salubris Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 54: 294 (1917). Type from Tanganyika (Kyimbila).
Information
Shrub or small tree up to c. 5 m. tall; bark smooth (dark brown, grey-brown or green-brown); branches often spiny, glabrous. Leaves 1-foliolate or 3-foliolate with 2 much smaller lateral leaflets; petiole very short (c. 1 mm. long) or considerably longer (up to 1·5 cm.), glabrous except for a minute tuft of hairs at the articulation just below the base of the sessile leaflet; leaflet-lamina up to 4 (6) × 1·5 (3) cm., elliptic or narrowly obovate-spathulate, apex acute or obtuse, margins finely crenate-serrate, base cuneate, glabrous on both sides. Flowers appearing before the leaves or with the young leaves in subsessile clusters on short side-shoots or spines. Calyx c. 2 mm. long, tubular, lobed to 1/3–1/2-way, glabrous. Petals c. 4 mm. long. Disk-lobes 4. Stamen-filaments slender, subterete. Fruit c. 1·2 × 0·6 cm., ellipsoid, somewhat flattened, glabrous, apex somewhat apiculate; pseudaril with (3) 4 arms; endocarp c. 7 × 5 mm., smooth, with one face rather deeply convex and one shallowly convex.
Habitat
A species of lakeshore thicket or in the undergrowth of forest patches.
Range
Widely distributed in tropical Africa north of our area, also in India.
Distribution
Mozambique Z Mopeia, fr. 12.ix.1944, Mendonça 2045 (LISC).Mozambique N Palma, fr. 17.ix.1948, Andrada 1362 (COI; LISC).Zambia N Lake Mweru, fr. 11.xi.1957, Fanshawe 3909 (K).

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