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Commiphora kraeuseliana

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Identification
Commiphora kraeuseliana Heine 1956 [family BURSERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Entry for Commiphora kraeuseliana [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 kraeuseliana [family BURSERACEAE]
Information
Dioecious shrub 1-2 m tall with many relatively thin and slender stems sprouting from ground level; bark greyish brown or yellowish, peeling at the base of the stems in brownish papery pieces; young branchlets glabrous, scarred, relatively short and stout. Leaves pin­nate, 6-8-jugate, glabrous, green; petiole 5-25 mm long; leaflets linear, (10—)15(—25) X0,5—1 mm, sessile, margins entire. Inflores­cence: thyrsoid, up to 60 mm long, villous, with large bracts up to 7x 1 mm. Flowers uni­sexual, perigynous. Pedicel 4-8 mm long, pedicel, calyx and corolla villous or sparsely villous. Disc 8-lobed, adnate to hypanthium. Stamens 8. Fruit subglobose, ± 20x20x18 mm, glabrous; putamen smooth; pseudo-aril ab­sent.
Habitat
The feathery leaves with linear pinnae are atypical of Commiphora. A very unpleasant odour is exuded when branchlets or fruits are picked. It has been reported that the seeds are eaten by local peoples.
Use
29. Commiphora kraeuseliana Heine in Senckenberg. biol. 37: 493, fig. 1 & 2 (1956); Merxm. in F.S.W.A. 70: 7 (1968); J. J. A. v.d. Walt in Madoqua ser. 1: 14, t. 21-23 (1974); in Mitt. bot. StSamml., Munch. 12: 231, fig. 23, 29 (1975). Type: S.W.A./Namibia, Tafel-berg near Petrified Forest, Krdusel 634 (FR, holo.!;M!).
Range
Occurs in the north-western part of S.W.A./Namibia. It has only been collected in the vicinity of the Brandberg and further north in Kaokoland. Map 31.

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