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Commiphora kwebensis

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Identification
Commiphora kwebensis unrecorded [family BURSERACEAE ] Commiphora angolensis Engl. [family BURSERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Walt, J.J. van der,
Related name
  • Commiphora angolensis
  • Commiphora kwebensis

Flora

Entry for Commiphora angolensis Engl. [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 angolensis Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 24 (1883); Bot. Jahrb.48: 486 (1912); in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 19a: 438 (1931). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 2: 300 (1951). — White, F.F.N.R.: 176, fig. 34D (1962). TAB. 52 fig. E. Syntypes from Angola.
Commiphora rehmannii Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 15 (1883); Bot. Jahrb. 48: 483, fig. 3J (1912); in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 19a: 438 (1931). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 485 (1932). Type from the Transvaal.
Commiphora oliveri Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], in A. & C. DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 24 (1883); Bot. Jahrb. 48: 483, fig. 3K (1912); in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 19a: 438 (1931). Type: Bechuanaland Prot., South-Western Division, Baines (K, holotype).
Commiphora kwebensis N.E.Br. [family BURSERACEAE], in Kew Bull. 1909: 98 (1909). — O.B.Mill. in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 38 (1952). Syntypes: Bechuanaland Prot., Kwebe Hills, Lugard 86 (K), Mrs. Lugard 34 (K).
Information
Bush or small tree up to 5 m. tall; bark on older specimens chestnut-brown, polygonal-reticulate on bole, flaking in scales 2 cm. across, greenish on branches and peeling in papery buff strips; young branches densely pubescent. Leaves pinnate with the leaflets 2–4-jugate or occasionally 3-foliolate; petiole up to 5 cm. long, pubescent; leaflets up to 6 × 2·3 cm., oblong, elliptic-oblong, ovate or rotund, apex acute or obtuse, margin crenate-serrate, base rounded or very broadly cuneate, slightly asymmetric, sparsely pubescent above, more densely so below, occasionally almost glabrous; petiolules up to 0·5 mm. long, pubescent. Flowers appearing with the young leaves, in axillary dichasial cymes up to 8 cm. long or the female inflorescences reduced to 1–2-flowered abbreviated cymes; branches of inflorescence pubescent; bracteoles up to 3 mm. long, filamentous, pilose; pedicels up to 5 mm. long, slender, pilose. Calyx c. 4 mm. long, infundibuliform, lobed to 1/3-way, pilose. Petals 2·5–4 mm. long, pilose outside except towards the margins. Stamen-filaments flattened and broadened towards the base. Disk-lobes not developed. Fruit 0·85–1·3 × 0·7 × 1 cm., ovoid-globose, minutely apiculate, glabrous; pseudaril covering up to 2/3 of the endocarp and becoming thin above; endocarp c. 1·1 × 0·8 cm., cordiform, smooth, both faces moderately convex.
Habitat
Kalahari Sands with Baikiaea plurijuga and in Colophospermum mopane woodland. Often thicket-forming.
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Hot Springs, fl. 16.xi.1952, Chase 4713 (BM; K; PRE; SRGH).Botswana SW without precise locality, Baines (K).Zimbabwe W Wankie Game Reserve, Dett Rd., fr. 22.ii.1956, Wild 4784 (K; PRE; SRGH).Zambia B Sesheke Distr., 1·5 km. W. of Katima, fr. 1.iii.1952, White 1997 (FHO; K).Botswana N Kwebe Hills, fl. 1.xii.1897, Lugard 34 (K).
Distribution (external)
Angola
Transvaal
northern Cape Prov.
SW. Africa

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