Commiphora angolensis Engl.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Burseraceae > Commiphora

Characteristics

Dioecious many-stemmed shrub or bush 0.5-2.5 m tall; bark grey to dark grey with brownish lenticels, often flaking locally in yellowish papery pieces; young branchlets sparsely pilose to densely pubescent, not spine-tipped. Leaves trifoliolate or pinnate, 2-4-jugate, sparsely pilose to densely pubescent, green; petiole 5-22 mm; upper three-quarters of leaflet margin crenate-serrate, lower quarter subentire to entire, terminal leaflet elliptic to broadly elliptic rarely obovate, (10-)16(-32) x (7-)10(-20) mm; petiolule 1-3(-9) mm; apex acute, rarely obtuse, base cuneate, rarely obtuse, lateral leaflets elliptic to broadly elliptic, rarely suborbicular, (5-)12(-30) x (4-)8(-18) mm, subsessile or sessile, apex acute, rarely obtuse, base cuneate or obtuse. Inflorescence: simple or compound dichasial cymes up to 50 mm long, sparsely pilose to densely pubescent. Flowers unisexual, perigynous. Pedicel 2-5 mm long, pedicel, hypanthium, calyx and corolla sparsely pilose to densely pubescent. Disc reduced without distinct lobes, adnate to hypanthium. Stamens 8. Fruit subglobose or ellipsoid, ±13 x 11 x 9 mm, pilose; putamen smooth; pseudo-aril cupular with 2 facial lobes of variable length and form, covering lower quarter to half of putamen, lobe on less convex face of putamen usually longer than other lobe.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 5 m tall. The bark becomes brown and flakes off. Young branches are densely hairy. The leaves have leaflets along the stalk. These can be divided. The leaflets are 6 cm long by 2 cm wide. The are narrowly oblong. There are rounded teeth along the edge. The flowers appear with the young leaves. They are in groups 8 cm long in the axils of leaves. The fruit are about 1 cm across.
Leaves pinnate with the leaflets 2–4-jugate or occasionally 3-foliolate; petiole up to 5 cm. long, pubescent; leaflets up to 6 × 2·3 cm., oblong, elliptic-oblong, ovate or rotund, apex acute or obtuse, margin crenate-serrate, base rounded or very broadly cuneate, slightly asymmetric, sparsely pubescent above, more densely so below, occasionally almost glabrous; petiolules up to 0·5 mm. long, pubescent.
Flowers appearing with the young leaves, in axillary dichasial cymes up to 8 cm. long or the female inflorescences reduced to 1–2-flowered abbreviated cymes; branches of inflorescence pubescent; bracteoles up to 3 mm. long, filamentous, pilose; pedicels up to 5 mm. long, slender, pilose.
Bush or small tree up to 5 m. tall; bark on older specimens chestnut-brown, polygonal-reticulate on bole, flaking in scales 2 cm. across, greenish on branches and peeling in papery buff strips; young branches densely pubescent.
Fruit 0·85–1·3 × 0·7 × 1 cm., ovoid-globose, minutely apiculate, glabrous; pseudaril covering up to 2/3 of the endocarp and becoming thin above; endocarp c. 1·1 × 0·8 cm., cordiform, smooth, both faces moderately convex.
Many-stemmed shrub or bush, up to 2.5 m high. Leaves sparsely pilose to pubescent, 3-foliolate or imparipinnate; lamina up to 90 mm long; terminal leaflet elliptic to obovate, 35 x 20 mm. Flowers yellow to green.
Petals 2·5–4 mm. long, pilose outside except towards the margins.
Calyx c. 4 mm. long, infundibuliform, lobed to 1/3-way, pilose.
Stamen-filaments flattened and broadened towards the base.
Disk-lobes not developed.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 4.0
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Kalahari sands, where it grows with Baikiaea plurijuga and in Colophospermum mopane woodland; at elevations up to 1,280 metres.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in Kalahari sands. It grows in semi-desert.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The red bark is removed then the root is chewed and sucked for the juice.
Uses animal food environmental use food fuel gene source material medicinal wood
Edible roots stems tubers
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Images

Commiphora angolensis unspecified picture

Distribution

Commiphora angolensis world distribution map, present in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Conservation status

Commiphora angolensis threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:127587-1
WFO ID wfo-0000617177
COL ID XG2Q
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Commiphora angolensis Commiphora nigrescens Commiphora kwebensis Commiphora olivieri Commiphora rehmannii Balsamea angolensis