Commiphora glaucescens
| Family: | Burseraceae |
| Full name: | Commiphora glaucescens Engl. |
| Location: | Along D1985 (2215DC) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Bloublaar kanniedood |
| English common name(s): | Blue-leaved corkwood |
| Synonym(s): | Commiphora hereroensis Schinz Commiphora pruinosa Engl. |
| Status: | Near-endemic |
| Description: | Dioecious tree 2-8 m tall with a single trunk or shrub-like tree 1 -2 m tall with a trunk branching near ground level; bark yellowish brown to reddish brown, peeling in papery pieces or discoid flakes of the same colour; young branchlets glabrous or sparsely pilose to densely pilose, not spine-tipped. Leaves simple, glabrous or sparsely pilose to densely pilose, glaucous or pale green, subsessile, elliptic or broadly elliptic seldom obovate, (15-)40(-100) x (8-)25(-60) mm, margin entire, apex usually truncate, seldom refuse or acute, base truncate or cuneate. Inflorescence: simple or compound dichasial cymes or thyrsoid, up to 80 mm long, glabrous or pilose to densely pilose, often with leaf-like bracts up to 10 x 7 mm. Flowers unisexual, perigynous. Pedicel 2-10 mm long, pedicel, calyx and corolla glabrous or sparsely pilose to pilose. Disc 8-lobed, upper part of lobes free but lower part adnate to hypanthium. Stamens 8. Fruit ellipsoid, 11 x 6 x 4 mm, glabrous or pilose; putamen smooth; pseudo-aril red, cupular with 4 or 3 short lobes, covering lower quarter to third of putamen, 2 commissural lobes slightly longer than 2 facial lobes, lobe on more convex face of putamen in some cases 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: | 13 Jun 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/1000 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
