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Commiphora oblanceolata

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Name

Identification
Commiphora oblanceolata Schinz [family BURSERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Schinz, K.,
Related name
  • Commiphora gracilifrondosa
  • Commiphora oblanceolata

Flora

Entry for Commiphora oblanceolata [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 oblanceolata [family BURSERACEAE]
Information
Dioecious shrub-like tree, 1-3 m tall, trunk branching above ground level into thick stems with succulent appearance; bark grey to dark grey, smooth, not peeling; young branch-lets glandular but otherwise glabrous, not spine-tipped. Leaves trifoliolate, glandular, green; pe­tiole 3-25 mm long; leaflets narrowly oblan-ceolate to oblanceolate, (7-)13(-45)x (3-)4 (-9) mm, sessile or subsessile, margin finely serrate-dentate or almost entire, apex obtuse, base cuneate. Inflorescence: simple dichasial cymes up to 10 mm long, glandular, or flowers solitary. Flowers unisexual, perigynous. Pedi­cel 0,4-1 mm long, pedicel and calyx sparsely glandular. Disc 4-lobed, adnate to hypanthium. Stamens 4 only. Fruit subglobose, ± 9x8x8 mm, glabrous; putamen and pseudo-aril not seen.
Habitat
C. oblanceolata and C. gracilifrondosa (no. 16) are the only two species with the reduced number of four sta­mens per flower. They can, however, easily be distin­guished on leaf characteristics (Van der Walt, 1971).
Use
17. Commiphora oblanceolata Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boissier, ser. 2, 8: 633 (1908); Engl, in Pflanzenfam. edn 2, 19a: 435 (1931); Merxm. in F.S.W.A. 70: 7 (1968); J. J. A. v.d. Walt in Jl S. Afr. Bot. 37: 196 (1971); in Madoqua ser. 1: 16, t. 27-29 (1974); in Mitt, bot. StSamml., Munch. 12: 217, fig. 13 (1975). Type: S.W.A./Namibia, Kaokoveld, Kan-Tal, Dinter 1497 (Z, holo.!; K!; W!).
Range
Occurs in the north-western part of S.W.A./Namibia from Swartbooisdrif in the north to the Namib Desert Park in the south. It is common on the farm Palmenhorst where it grows on the slopes of the arid mountains near the Swakop River. Map 19.

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