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Commiphora angolensis

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Identification
Commiphora angolensis Engl. [family BURSERACEAE ] (stored under name); Commiphora angolensis Engl. [family BURSERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Commidendron [commiphora] oliveri
  • Balsamea angolensis
  • Commiphora angolensis
  • Commiphora rehmannii
  • Balsamea longebracteata
  • Commiphora longebracteata
  • Balsamodendron unrecorded
  • Commiphora grosswelleri
  • Commiphora kwebensis
  • Commiphora nigrescens

Flora

Entry for Commiphora angolensis [family BURSERACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Commiphora angolensis [family BURSERACEAE]
Common names
Balsamea angolensis (Engl.) Hiern, Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 1:24(1896). Commiphora oliveri Engl, in A. DC., Monogr. Phan. 4: 24 (1883); in Pflanzenfam. edn 2,19a: 438 (1931). Type: Botswana, Baines s.n. (K, holo.!). C. rehmannii Eng. in A. DC., Monogr. Phan. 4: 15 (1883). Type: Transvaal, Rehmann s.n. (B, holo.t; K, frag­ment and photo, of holo.!; BM, sketch of holo.!); Klippan, Rehmann 5324 (Z, lecto.!). C. longebracteata Engl, in A. DC., Monogr. Phan. 4: 19 (1883); in Pflanzenfam. edn 2,19a: 438 (1931). Type: An­gola, Welwitsch 4494 (G, holo., only photo, seen; LISU!). C. kwebensis N.E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1909: 98 (1909). Syntypes: Botswana, Kwebe Hills, Lugard 34 (K!); Lugard 86(K, lecto.!). C. gossweileri Engl, in Bot. Jb. 44: 147 (1910). Type: Angola, Luanda, Gossweiler 442 (B, holo.t; K, lecto.!; BM!). C. nigrescens Engl, in Bot. Jb. 44: 148 (1910); in Pflan­zenfam. edn 2,19a: 438 (1931). Syntypes: S.W.A./Nami­bia, Grootfontein, Dinter 727 (B,f; K, fragment!); Dinter 111* (Bt; BM, sketch, lecto.!).
Information
Dioecious many-stemmed shrub or bush 0,5—2,5 m tall; bark grey to dark grey with brownish lenticels, often flaking locally in yel­lowish papery pieces; young branchlets sparsely pilose to densely pubescent, not spine-tipped. Leaves trifoliolate or pinnate, 2—4-jugate, spar­sely pilose to densely pubescent, green; petiole 5-22 mm; upper three-quarters of leaflet mar­gin crenate-serrate, lower quarter subentire to entire, terminal leaflet elliptic to broadly elliptic rarely obovate, (10-)16(-32)x(7-)10(-20) mm; petiolule 1—3(—9) mm; apex acute, rarely obtuse, base cuneate, rarely obtuse, lateral leaf­lets elliptic to broadly elliptic, rarely suborbicu-lar, (5-)12(-30)x(4-)8(-18) mm, subses-sile or sessile, apex acute, rarely obtuse, base cuneate or obtuse. Inflorescence: simple or compound dichasial cymes up to 50 mm long, sparsely pilose to densely pubescent. Flowers unisexual, perigynous. Pedicel 2-5 mm long, pedicel, hypanthium, calyx and corolla sparsely pilose to densely pubescent. Disc reduced without distinct lobes, adnate to hypanthium. Stamens 8. Fruit subglobose or ellipsoid, ± 13x11x9 mm, pilose; putamen smooth; pseudo-aril cupular with 2 facial lobes of varia­ble length and form, covering lower quarter to half of putamen, lobe on less convex face of putamen usually longer than other lobe.
Habitat
In the Transvaal, C. angolensis and C. tenuipetiolata (no. 27), are two clearly delimited species, easily distin­guishable by the indumentum of the branchlets and leaves.
Use
28. Commiphora angolensis Engl, in A. DC., Monogr. Phan. 4: 24 (1883); in Pflan-zenfam. edn 2,19a: 438 (1931); Exell & Men-donca in C.F.A. 1: 300 (1951); Wild in F.Z. 2: 281 (1963); Merxm. in F.S.W.A. 70: 5 (1968); J. J. A. v.d. Walt in Bothalia 11: 90, fig. 82-87 (1973); in Mitt. bot. StSamml., Munch. 12: 229, fig. 22, 29k & k, (1975). Syntypes: Angola, Luanda, Welwitsch 4485 (LISU, lecto.!); sine loco 4488 (G, only photo, seen; LISU!).
Range
Widely distributed in the northern part of S.W.A./ Namibia and also known from Botswana and a few locali­ties in northern Tvl. It grows in deep sandy soil presumably derived from the Kalahari. Also recorded from Angola, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia. Map 30.

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