Commiphora viminea Burtt Davy

Dioecious tree 2-5 m tall with a single trunk; bark grey with dark patches, peeling around the stem in yellowish papery strips; young branchlets glabrous, smooth, purplish, often spine-tipped. Leaves simple but on long shoots often trifoliolate with smaller lateral leaflets, with long glandular hairs at base but otherwise glabrous, glaucous, subsessile, margin crenate-serrate especially near apex, apex acute to obtuse, base cuneate, lamina of simple leaves/terminal leaflet narrowly obovate to obovate or elliptic, 7-45 x 5-25 mm, lateral leaflets elliptic, 5-8 x 3-5 mm. Inflorescence: flowers borne in clusters. Flowers unisexual, hypogynous, glabrous. Pedicel 2-10 mm long. Disc 4-lobed, not adnate to perianth. Stamens 8. Fruit ellipsoid, 10 x 6 x 5 mm, glabrous, apiculate; putamen rugose; pseudo-aril yellow, covering the whole putamen except the apex.

A tropical plant. It occurs in low altitude, hot, dry areas.