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Commiphora dinteri [family BURSERACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 dinteri [family BURSERACEAE]
Information
Dioecious shrub 0,5-3 m tall, many rela­tively thin stems sprouting from ground level; bark yellowish green to greyish brown with dark spots, smooth, not peeling; young branch-lets glabrous, usually slender, not spine-tipped. Leaves trifoliolate, glabrous, green; petiole 2-18 mm long; leaflets obovate or broadly elliptic, subsessile, margin usually finely crenate-serrate, apex obtuse, seldom truncate or refuse, base cuneate, terminal leaflet (6-) 14 (-22)X(4-)10(-15) mm, lateral leaflets (4-) 9(-12)X(2-)6(-9) mm. Inflorescence: flow­ers solitary. Flowers unisexual, perigynous, subsessile. Calyx glandular, otherwise gla­brous. Disc 4-lobed, adnate to hypanthium. Stamens 8. Fruit ovoid, ± 11x8x8 mm, api-culate, glabrous; putamen smooth; pseudo-aril red, cupular with 4 (3) arms, 2 commissural arms reaching almost to apex of putamen, facial arms much shorter, arm on more convex face of putamen often completely undeveloped.
Habitat
The leaves of specimens collected near Orupemba are relatively large. Exceptionally large leaves of other species of Commiphora are also known from this part of Kaoko-land.
Use
15. Commiphora dinteri Engl, in Bot. Jb. 44: 151 (1910); in Pflanzenfam. edn 2,19a: 438 (1931); Merxm. in F.S.W.A. 70: 6 (1968); J. J. A. v.d. Walt in Madoqua ser. 1:9, t 7-10 (1974); in Mitt. bot. StSamml., Munch. 12: 215, fig. 11, 28c & C|, 29d & d, (1975). Svn-types: S.W.A./Namibia, Omatako, (sphalm. Omalako) Dinter 1393 (B,t); sine loco, Dinter 1477 (B,t;Z!;K, fragment!).
Range
Occurs in S.W.A./Namibia, mainly in the Namib Desert or on its fringes. It is known from Orupemba south­wards to the Zaris mountains near Maltahohe, and eastwards to Rehoboth. Map 17.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 dinteri [family BURSERACEAE]
Information
Dioecious shrub 0,5-3 m tall, many rela­tively thin stems sprouting from ground level; bark yellowish green to greyish brown with dark spots, smooth, not peeling; young branch-lets glabrous, usually slender, not spine-tipped. Leaves trifoliolate, glabrous, green; petiole 2-18 mm long; leaflets obovate or broadly elliptic, subsessile, margin usually finely crenate-serrate, apex obtuse, seldom truncate or refuse, base cuneate, terminal leaflet (6-) 14 (-22)X(4-)10(-15) mm, lateral leaflets (4-) 9(-12)X(2-)6(-9) mm. Inflorescence: flow­ers solitary. Flowers unisexual, perigynous, subsessile. Calyx glandular, otherwise gla­brous. Disc 4-lobed, adnate to hypanthium. Stamens 8. Fruit ovoid, ± 11x8x8 mm, api-culate, glabrous; putamen smooth; pseudo-aril red, cupular with 4 (3) arms, 2 commissural arms reaching almost to apex of putamen, facial arms much shorter, arm on more convex face of putamen often completely undeveloped.
Habitat
The leaves of specimens collected near Orupemba are relatively large. Exceptionally large leaves of other species of Commiphora are also known from this part of Kaoko-land.
Use
15. Commiphora dinteri Engl, in Bot. Jb. 44: 151 (1910); in Pflanzenfam. edn 2,19a: 438 (1931); Merxm. in F.S.W.A. 70: 6 (1968); J. J. A. v.d. Walt in Madoqua ser. 1:9, t 7-10 (1974); in Mitt. bot. StSamml., Munch. 12: 215, fig. 11, 28c & C|, 29d & d, (1975). Svn-types: S.W.A./Namibia, Omatako, (sphalm. Omalako) Dinter 1393 (B,t); sine loco, Dinter 1477 (B,t;Z!;K, fragment!).
Range
Occurs in S.W.A./Namibia, mainly in the Namib Desert or on its fringes. It is known from Orupemba south­wards to the Zaris mountains near Maltahohe, and eastwards to Rehoboth. Map 17.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 dinteri [family BURSERACEAE]
Information
Dioecious shrub 0,5-3 m tall, many rela­tively thin stems sprouting from ground level; bark yellowish green to greyish brown with dark spots, smooth, not peeling; young branch-lets glabrous, usually slender, not spine-tipped. Leaves trifoliolate, glabrous, green; petiole 2-18 mm long; leaflets obovate or broadly elliptic, subsessile, margin usually finely crenate-serrate, apex obtuse, seldom truncate or refuse, base cuneate, terminal leaflet (6-) 14 (-22)X(4-)10(-15) mm, lateral leaflets (4-) 9(-12)X(2-)6(-9) mm. Inflorescence: flow­ers solitary. Flowers unisexual, perigynous, subsessile. Calyx glandular, otherwise gla­brous. Disc 4-lobed, adnate to hypanthium. Stamens 8. Fruit ovoid, ± 11x8x8 mm, api-culate, glabrous; putamen smooth; pseudo-aril red, cupular with 4 (3) arms, 2 commissural arms reaching almost to apex of putamen, facial arms much shorter, arm on more convex face of putamen often completely undeveloped.
Habitat
The leaves of specimens collected near Orupemba are relatively large. Exceptionally large leaves of other species of Commiphora are also known from this part of Kaoko-land.
Use
15. Commiphora dinteri Engl, in Bot. Jb. 44: 151 (1910); in Pflanzenfam. edn 2,19a: 438 (1931); Merxm. in F.S.W.A. 70: 6 (1968); J. J. A. v.d. Walt in Madoqua ser. 1:9, t 7-10 (1974); in Mitt. bot. StSamml., Munch. 12: 215, fig. 11, 28c & C|, 29d & d, (1975). Svn-types: S.W.A./Namibia, Omatako, (sphalm. Omalako) Dinter 1393 (B,t); sine loco, Dinter 1477 (B,t;Z!;K, fragment!).
Range
Occurs in S.W.A./Namibia, mainly in the Namib Desert or on its fringes. It is known from Orupemba south­wards to the Zaris mountains near Maltahohe, and eastwards to Rehoboth. Map 17.
Commiphora dinteri [family BURSERACEAE]
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