Commiphora madagascariensis Jacq.

Slender glabrous sometimes scandent shrubs or trees 1–15 m. tall; outer bark of young stems peeling in pale scrolls or flakes from the green under-bark; older stems and trunks grey-brown; slash white; exudate very liquid, evaporating with hardly any solid residue, very aromatic; spikes few, sparse and short, the longer branches not spine-tipped.. Mature leaves glossy, brownish, paler beneath; petiole 5–45(–70) mm. long; lateral leaflets usually present but often caducous, oblong or narrowly ovate and acute, 1–12 mm. long, 0.5–8 mm. wide; main leaflet elliptic-obovate, acute, broadly cuneate at the base, 25–40(–115) mm. long, 12–30(–80) mm. wide; main lateral veins 5–8 on each side, thin, rather prominent above and beneath, midrib grooved; margin entire or with numerous (20–60 on each side) minute teeth (their short side under 0.3 mm. long).. Male flowers greenish yellow or red, 1–3 together on pedicels 1–1.5 mm. long at the tips of short shoots, appearing with the young leaves; calyx ± 1.2 mm. long including ± 0.3 mm. triangular lobes; petals linear, ± 4 mm. long; filaments 2.6 and 2 mm., anthers 0.7 mm. long.. Fruit subsessile or on pedicels ± 3 mm. and peduncles 1–3 mm. long, obovoid, 10–13 mm. long including a beak of 0.6 mm., 7–9 mm. wide, (3.5–4 + 3.5–4) mm. thick; pericarp fleshy, 1 mm. thick; pseudaril bright red when mature, enveloping the whole stone, which has 2 similar locules slightly unequal in size, rounded oblong when viewed from above with 2 small apical pits, perhaps both fertile, 6–8 × 4–5 × (3–3.5 + 3–3.5) mm.. Fig. 5/21–23, p.25.

It is a tropical plant. It grows near lakes and in forest undergrowth. It grows between 5 and 660 m above sea level in areas with an annual rainfall of 750-950 mm