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Commiphora glandulosa

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Identification
Isotype of Commiphora thermitaria Lisowski, Malaisse & Symoens [family BURSERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Commiphora glandulosa Schinz [family BURSERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Commiphora glandulosa
  • Commiphora pyracanthoides
  • Commiphora subsessilifolia
  • Commiphora thermitaria
  • Commiphora berberidifolia
  • Commiphora lugardae

Flora

Entry for Commiphora glandulosa [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 glandulosa [family BURSERACEAE]
Common names
C. pyracanthoides Engl, subsp. glandulosa (Schinz) Wild in Bolm Soc. broteriana, s6r. 2, 33:44 (1959); in F.Z. 2: 268 (1963); Von Breitenbach, Ind. Trees S. Afr 3: 433 (1965); Merxm. in F.S.W. A. 70: 8 (1968). C. lugardae N.E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1909: 99 (1909); Miller in Jl S. Afr. Bot. 18: 38 (1952). Type: Botswana, Kwebe Hills, Lugard 23 (K, holo.!). C. seineri Engl, in Bot. Jb. 44: 145 (1910); in Bot. Jb. 48: 480 (1913); in Pflanzenfam. edn 2,19a: 437 (1931). Type: Zambia, Sesheko, Seiner 57 (B, holo.!; K, photo!; BM, sketch!). C. berberidifolia Engl, in Bot. Jb. 48: 480 (1913); in Pflanzenfam. edn 2,19a: 437 (1931). Type: S.W.A./Nami-bia, Okahandja, Waldau, Dinter 385 (B, holo.!; K, frag­ment!).
Information
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 subglo-bose, ± 14x13x12 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. Figs 3, 4 &5.
Habitat
Wild in Bolm Soc. broteriana, se"r. 2, 33: 43; 1959 considers this taxon to be a subspecies of C. pyracanthoides Engl. (no. 5). This taxonomic change by Wild is based mainly on observations made By Merxmuller in S.W.A./Namibia where C. glandulosa occurs in tree and shrub form. However, the flower, and fruit structure of these two taxa differ to such a degree that they are con­sidered to be different species.
Use
4. Commiphora glandulosa Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boissier, s6r. 2,8: 633 (1908); Exell & Mendonca in C.F.A. 1: 298 (1951); J. J. A. v.d. Walt in Bothalia 11: 57, fig. 1-7 (1973); in Mitt. bot. StSamml., Munch. 12: 206, fig. 4 (1975). Syntypes: S.W.A./Namibia, Ombandja, Schinz 767 (Z, lecto.!); Ondonga, Schinz s.n. (not seen).
Range
Widely distributed in S.W.A./Namibia, Botswana, northern Tvl. and northern Zululand. Particularly common north of the Soutpansberg. Grows in sandy, well-drained soil in savanna-woodland or in broken mopaniveld. Also recorded from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and Angola. Map 6.

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