- Family: Burseraceae Kunth
- Genus: Commiphora Jacq.
Commiphora gileadensis (L.) C.Chr.
- Genus: Commiphora Jacq.
This species is accepted, and its native range is NE. Tropical Africa to NE. Kenya, Arabian Peninsula.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Habit
- Shrub or tree, up to 5 m tall, unarmed, sometimes with long slender drooping branches; bark yellowish to dull orange or grey or black, smooth, sometimes peeling in small papery flakes; branchlets longitudinally ridged, glabrous to pubescent
- Leaves
- Leaves 3–9(–11)-foliolate, glabrous to densely pubescent, sometimes with hooked hairs; petiole 2–35 mm long, sometimes narrowly winged; rhachis sometimes narrowly winged; leaflets linear to oblanceolate, obovate or suborbicular, 0.3–3.2 x 0.1–2(–2.5) cm, subacute to retuse at the apex, with entire margins, the lateral leaflets smaller than the terminal one
- Inflorescences
- Flowers in 1–several-flowered glabrous to pubescent cymes or clusters; peduncle c. 0.5–5 mm long; pedicels 0.5–2.5(–6) mm long
- Calyx
- Calyx 1–1.5 mm long, glabrous or pubescent
- Corolla
- Petals c. 2–5 mm long, white or cream, glabrous or pubescent outside
- Fruits
- Fruits ellipsoid to ovoid, obtuse and apiculate at the apex, 5–10 x 3–7 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulous, purplish, marked with 4 pale lines, subsessile or usually on a distinct stalk; pericarp 4-valved; pseudaril with cup-like basal part and thinner upper part; stone ellipsoid to ovoid, flattened, 4–7.5 x 3–5 mm, with sterile cell much smaller than the fertile cell.
- Distribution
- N1–3; C1, 2; S1, 2
- Ecology
- Altitude range 15–1300 m.
- Vernacular
- Daseino, dhudus, dhusundus, gabrar, garoon madow, goron, qoron, sagaarasol (Somali).
- Note
- C. gileadensis is taken here in a broader sense than by previous authors.
[FTEA]
Burseraceae, J.B. Gillett. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1991
- Habit
- Shrub 2–4 m. tall; bark dull orange, grey or blackish, peeling in small scrolls or not peeling; exudate clear, with a pungent resinous odour; young twigs 1–1.5 mm. thick, somewhat fluted, brownish pubescent, later glabrescent.
- Leaves
- Leaves puberulous, velvety pubescent or hispidulous throughout, becoming orange-red before being shed, (3–)5–9-foliolate; rhachis up to 35 mm. long, including the 3–10 mm. petiole, winged in its upper part; leaflets usually entire, rarely with undulate margins, the lateral suborbicular, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, rounded or broadly pointed apically, obliquely rounded or broadly pointed basally (the lowest pair smaller than the others, occasionally subalternate), 3–15 mm. long, 3–7 mm. wide; the terminal attenuate at the base but always sessile, (4–)6–17 mm. long, 3–9 mm. wide.
- Flowers
- Male flowers yellow in dense pubescent clusters appearing with the leaves; peduncles and pedicels together under 2 mm. long; bracteoles ± 0.3 mm.
- Male
- Male flowers yellow in dense pubescent clusters appearing with the leaves; peduncles and pedicels together under 2 mm. long; bracteoles ± 0.3 mm.
- Calyx
- Calyx densely pubescent, ± 1.7 mm. wide and 1 mm. deep, including broadly triangular teeth ± 0.2 mm. long.
- Corolla
- Petals usually pubescent outside, ± 1.7 × 0.5 mm.
- Filaments
- Filaments glabrous, 1.3 and 0.9 mm., anthers 0.6 mm. long.
- Fruits
- Fruits single or paired on stalks 1–2 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely puberulous in parts, dark brown with 4 pale streaks, flattened ovoid or ellipsoid, apiculate, 6–7 × 3–5 × (1 + 1.5–2) mm.; pericarp 4-valved; pseudaril orange-yellow with 4 narrowly triangular lobes, the sutural more than half as long as the facial, that on the sterile longer than that on the fertile locule; stone smooth, ± 4 × 3 × (1 + 2) mm., the sterile narrower than the fertile locule, ridged dorsally near its base.
- Figures
- Fig. 15/13, 14, p. 82.
- Habitat
- Acacia, Commiphora bushland on limestone hills; 800 m.; rainfall ± 230 mm.
- Distribution
- K1
Native to:
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen
- Balsamea gileadensis (L.) Oken
- Balsamea meccanensis Gled.
- Balsamea opobalsamum (L.) Baill.
- Balsamodendrum ehrenbergianum O.Berg
- Balsamodendrum gileadense (L.) Kunth ex DC.
- Balsamodendrum opobalsamum (L.) Kunth ex DC.
- Balsamus libanotus Stackh.
- Balsamus meccanensis Stackh.
- Balsamus theophrasti Stackh.
- Commiphora albiflora Engl.
- Commiphora ancistrophora Chiov.
- Commiphora anfractuosa Chiov.
- Commiphora cassan Chiov.
- Commiphora gillettii Chiov.
- Commiphora microcarpa Chiov.
- Commiphora opobalsamum (L.) Engl.
- Commiphora suckertiana Chiov.
- Commiphora velutina Chiov.
- Amyris gileadensis L.
- Amyris opobalsamum L.
Commiphora gileadensis (L.) C.Chr. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Gillett, J.B. [12599], Kenya | 8928.000 | |||
Gillett, J.B. [4817], Somalia | Commiphora gillettii | K000425323 | Unknown type material | |
Ellebeck [2041a] | Commiphora albiflora | K000425330 |
First published in Dansk Bot. Ark. 4(3): 18 (1922)
Accepted by
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Mosti, S., Raffaelli, M. & Tardelli, M. (2012). Contributions to the flora of central-southern Dhofar (Sultanate of Oman) Webbia; Raccolta de Scritti Botanici 67: 65-91.
- Boulos, L. (2000). Flora of Egypt 2: 1-352. Al Hadara Publishing, Cairo.
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
- Thulin, M. (ed.) in Thulin, M. (ed.) (1999). Flora of Somalia 2: 1-303. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Wood, J.R.I. (1997). A handbook of the Yemen Flora: 1-434. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Ghazanfar, S.A. (1992). An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Oman and their Vernacular names Scripta Botanica Belgica 2: 1-153.
- Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1989 publ. 1990). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 3: 1-659. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Mosti, S., Raffaelli, M. & Tardelli, M. (2012). Contributions to the flora of central-southern Dhofar (Sultanate of Oman) Webbia; Raccolta de Scritti Botanici 67: 65-91.
- Thulin, M. (ed.) in Thulin, M. (ed.) (1999). Flora of Somalia 2: 1-303. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Audru, J., Cesar, J. & Lebrun, J.-P. (1994). Les Plantes Vasculaires de la République de Djibouti. Flore Illustrée 1: 1-336. CIRAD, Départerment d'Elevage et de Médecine vétérinaire, Djibouti.
- Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1989 publ. 1990). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 3: 1-659. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
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