Compilation
Commiphora marlothii

Dioecious tree up to 9 m tall; bark peeling in large yellowish papery pieces; young branch-lets obtuse, densely pilose to pubescent. Leaves pinnate, 3-5-jugate, pubescent to tomentose, dark green; petiole 15-95 mm long, with me­dullary vascular bundles; leaflets obovate to broadly elliptic; petiolules 1-2 mm long; mar­gins crenate-serrate to finely lobed, apex obtuse to acute, base cuneate or rounded, terminal leaflet up to 80x40 mm, lateral leaflets up to 60x35 mm. Inflorescence: axillary, paniculate simple or compound dichasial cymes. Flowers unisexual, hypogynous. Pedicel less than 1 mm long, pedicel and calyx pubescent. Petals pilose outside. Disc 4-lobed, pilose, not adnate to perianth. Stamens 8. Fruit subglobose, ± 20x17X16 mm, pilose; putamen slightly ru­gose; pseudo-aril yellow, with 4 arms, 2 com­missural arms reaching almost to apex of puta­men, 2 facial arms shorter and of different lengths.