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Commiphora schimperi

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Identification
Isotype of Commiphora resiniflua Martelli [family BURSERACEAE ] Verified by Vollesen,K., 1981 Commiphora schimperi (Berg) Engl. [family BURSERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Balsamodendron schimperi
  • Commiphora flabellulifera
  • Commiphora trothai
  • Commiphora resiniflua
  • Balsamodendron habessinicum
  • Balsamodendrum kataf
  • Balsamodendrum unrecorded
  • Commiphora buraensis
  • Heudelotia africana
  • Commiphora neumannii
  • Commiphora schimperi
  • Commiphora habessinica
  • Commiphora simplicifolia
  • Balsamodendrum schimperi
  • Commiphora balsamiflua
  • Commiphora betschuanica
  • Commiphora hollisii
  • Balsamodendrum africanum

Flora

Entry for COMMIPHORA schimperi (O. Berg) Engl. [family BURSERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
COMMIPHORA schimperi (O. Berg) Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], (1883);
Balsamodendron schimperi O. Berg [family BURSERACEAE], (1862). Fig. 129. [type as above]
COMMIPHORA flabellulifera Chiov. [family BURSERACEAE], (1916), as “ C. flahellulifera ”;. types: S1, Paoli 781, 915, 949 (FT syn.).
Information
Shrub or small tree, 2–6 m tall, spiny, glabrous or almost so throughout; bark yellowish to grey, peeling in small flakes; young branchlets glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate, glabrous or with fairly long hairs at the base of the leaflets and on the petiole; petiole c. 5–35 mm long; middle leaflet obovate or rhombic, 7–35 x 8–25 mm, cuneate-attenuate at the base, rounded to acute at the apex, with margins deeply crenate usually above the middle on each side; lateral leaflets smaller than the middle one. Flowers produced before the leaves, glabrous, the male flowers many together in dense clusters, the female 1–6 together on c. 1 mm long pedicels. Calyx c. 3 mm long, shortly lobed. Petals 4–5 mm long. Fruits ovoid to ellipsoid, 10–15 x 7–8 mm, acute and often distinctly beaked at the apex; pericarp 2-valved; pseudaril almost entirely covering the rugose stone; stone c. 8 x 5 mm.
Range
N1; C2; S1 East Africa
Altitude range
225–1800 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Kuchar 17106; Gillett 4214; Beckett 1216.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Botswana
Zimbabwe
Mozambique
South Africa
Yemen
Notes
Wano (Som.-N).

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