Commiphora dinteri
| Family: | Burseraceae |
| Full name: | Commiphora dinteri Engl. |
| Location: | Farm Urikos (2416AC) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Dinter se kanniedood, Namib-kanniedood |
| English common name(s): | Namib corkwood, Small-leaved corkwood |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Endemic |
| Description: | Dioecious shrub 0.5-3 m tall, many relatively thin stems sprouting from ground level; bark yellowish green to greyish brown with dark spots, smooth, not peeling; young branchlets glabrous, usually slender, not spine-tipped. Leaves trifoliolate, glabrous, green; petiole 2-18 mm long; leaflets obovate or broadly elliptic, subsessile, margin usually finely crenate-serrate, apex obtuse, seldom truncate or refuse, base cuneate, terminal leaflet (6-)14 (-22) x (4-)10(-15) mm, lateral leaflets (4-) 9(-12) x (2-)6(-9) mm. Inflorescence: flowers solitary. Flowers unisexual, perigynous, subsessile. Calyx glandular, otherwise glabrous. Disc 4-lobed, adnate to hypanthium. Stamens 8. Fruit ovoid, 11 x 8 x 8 mm, api-culate, glabrous; putamen smooth; pseudo-aril red, cupular with 4 (3) arms, 2 commissural arms reaching almost to apex of putamen, facial arms much shorter, arm on more convex face of putamen often completely undeveloped. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 21 Jun 2018 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | EOS 7D |
| Lens aperture: | f/10.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/500 s |
| ISO speed: | 1000 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
