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Commiphora pyracanthoides Engl. [family BURSERACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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 pyracanthoides Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 26: 368 (1899); op. cit. 48: 481, fig. 2U (1912); in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 19a: 437 (1931). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 485 (1932). — O.B.Mill. in Journ. S. Afr. Bot.: 18: 38 (1952) (“pyracantha”). — Brenan in Kew Bull. 1953: 104 (1953). — Wild in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 33: 43 (1959). — White, F.F.N.R.: 176, fig. 34A (1962). Neotype from SW. Africa.
Information
Low spreading much-branched shrub 1–2 m. tall or a small tree up to c. 8 m. tall, spiny, bark grey and papery; young branches glabrous. Leaves 1-foliolate or very rarely (? only at the northern extremity of the range in N. Rhodesia) with very much smaller lateral leaflets; petiole up to 2 mm. long, glabrous or with a few minute glands and 4: pilose; leaflet-lamina up to 7·5 × 3·2 cm. (but usually smaller), narrowly obovate to obovate or more rarely elliptic, apex acute or sometimes obtuse, margins crenate-serrate, base cuneate, glabrous on both surfaces or with a few scattered glands especially towards the base of the midrib, rarely shortly pubescent when very young. Flowers appearing before the leaves in subsessile clusters on short side-shoots or on the spines. Calyx c. 2 mm. long, lobed to halfway, glabrous or ± densely glandular. Petals 4–5 mm. long. Disk-lobes 4. Stamen-filaments slender, subterete. Fruit c. 9 × 7 mm., broadly ellipsoid, somewhat asymmetric with abruptly pointed apex, glabrous; pseudaril with 3 (4) arms; endocarp c. 7 × 5 mm., smooth.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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 pyracanthoides Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 26: 368 (1899); op. cit. 48: 481, fig. 2U (1912); in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 19a: 437 (1931). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 485 (1932). — O.B.Mill. in Journ. S. Afr. Bot.: 18: 38 (1952) (“pyracantha”). — Brenan in Kew Bull. 1953: 104 (1953). — Wild in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 33: 43 (1959). — White, F.F.N.R.: 176, fig. 34A (1962). Neotype from SW. Africa.
Information
Low spreading much-branched shrub 1–2 m. tall or a small tree up to c. 8 m. tall, spiny, bark grey and papery; young branches glabrous. Leaves 1-foliolate or very rarely (? only at the northern extremity of the range in N. Rhodesia) with very much smaller lateral leaflets; petiole up to 2 mm. long, glabrous or with a few minute glands and 4: pilose; leaflet-lamina up to 7·5 × 3·2 cm. (but usually smaller), narrowly obovate to obovate or more rarely elliptic, apex acute or sometimes obtuse, margins crenate-serrate, base cuneate, glabrous on both surfaces or with a few scattered glands especially towards the base of the midrib, rarely shortly pubescent when very young. Flowers appearing before the leaves in subsessile clusters on short side-shoots or on the spines. Calyx c. 2 mm. long, lobed to halfway, glabrous or ± densely glandular. Petals 4–5 mm. long. Disk-lobes 4. Stamen-filaments slender, subterete. Fruit c. 9 × 7 mm., broadly ellipsoid, somewhat asymmetric with abruptly pointed apex, glabrous; pseudaril with 3 (4) arms; endocarp c. 7 × 5 mm., smooth.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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 pyracanthoides Engl. [family BURSERACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 26: 368 (1899); op. cit. 48: 481, fig. 2U (1912); in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 19a: 437 (1931). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 2: 485 (1932). — O.B.Mill. in Journ. S. Afr. Bot.: 18: 38 (1952) (“pyracantha”). — Brenan in Kew Bull. 1953: 104 (1953). — Wild in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 33: 43 (1959). — White, F.F.N.R.: 176, fig. 34A (1962). Neotype from SW. Africa.
Information
Low spreading much-branched shrub 1–2 m. tall or a small tree up to c. 8 m. tall, spiny, bark grey and papery; young branches glabrous. Leaves 1-foliolate or very rarely (? only at the northern extremity of the range in N. Rhodesia) with very much smaller lateral leaflets; petiole up to 2 mm. long, glabrous or with a few minute glands and 4: pilose; leaflet-lamina up to 7·5 × 3·2 cm. (but usually smaller), narrowly obovate to obovate or more rarely elliptic, apex acute or sometimes obtuse, margins crenate-serrate, base cuneate, glabrous on both surfaces or with a few scattered glands especially towards the base of the midrib, rarely shortly pubescent when very young. Flowers appearing before the leaves in subsessile clusters on short side-shoots or on the spines. Calyx c. 2 mm. long, lobed to halfway, glabrous or ± densely glandular. Petals 4–5 mm. long. Disk-lobes 4. Stamen-filaments slender, subterete. Fruit c. 9 × 7 mm., broadly ellipsoid, somewhat asymmetric with abruptly pointed apex, glabrous; pseudaril with 3 (4) arms; endocarp c. 7 × 5 mm., smooth.
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