commiphora gileadensiis
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commiphora gileadensiis
commiphora gileadensiis
Diagnostic description:Habitat A shrub or fairly stout, medium sized, 4-5m tall, spineless tree with slender, drooping branches, with smooth, grey bark, flaking in large irregular pieces; indumentum of two types; i.e. straight and curved hairs; branchlets glabrous-sub glabrous Leave Leaves 3-foliolate, rarely some with 5 leaflets, petiolate, petiole 4-20 (-25)mm ; leaflets 3-27 x 2-13mm Inflorescence 1-3 flowered, sessile-pedunculate(up to 5 mm) cymes, Flowers with 0.5-3-(-6.0) mm long pedicels. Flower Calyx campanulate,Jobes triangular, almost half the length of petals, up to 1.5 mm long.
Petals whitish-cream coloured, up to 3 mm longOvary not tomentose beneath, elliptic-ovate or obovate, obtuse-acute or emarginate, entire. Fruit rounded-ellipsoid, 5-9 (-10) x 5-7 mm, 4-valved, with four conspicuous lines, glabrous.
Pseudoaril having fleshy cup-like basal part and thin upper part, somewhat enveloping the whole. Stone, smooth, compressed,globular, 4-7 x 4-5mm, 3-4 mm thick.Distribution Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Arabia. Flowering Late December to March (-April).
Taxonomic name:commiphora gileadensiis
General description:A shrub or fairly stout, medium sized, 4-5 meter tall, spineless tree with slender, drooping branches, with smooth, grey bark, flaking in large irregular pieces; indumentum of two types, i.e. straight and curved hairs; branchlets glabrous-sub glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate, rarely some with 5 leaflets, petiolate, petiole 4-20 (-25) mm; leaflets 3-27 x 2-13 mm, not tomentose beneath, elliptic-ovate or obovate, obtuse-acute or emarginate, entire. Inflorescence 1-3-flowered, sessile-pedunculate (up to 5 mm) cymes. Flowers with 0.5-3-(-6.0) mm long pedicels. Calyx campanulate, lobes triangular, almost half the length of petals, up to 1.5 mm long. Petals whitish cream coloured, up to 3 mm long. Fruit + rounded-ellipsoid, 5-9 (-10) x 5-7 mm, 4 valved, with four conspicuous lines, glabrous. Pseudoaril having fleshy cup-like basal part and thin upper part, somewhat enveloping the whole. Stone, smooth, compressed, globular, 4-7 x 4-5 mm, 3-4 mm thick
Distribution : Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Arabia. Arabic Name : Bisham, Balsam, Risha'a Saudi Arabia: Abha, Najran, Zaffaf Island, Fayfa, Jeddah. Flowering : Late December to March (-April)
Taxonomic name:commiphora gileadensiis
General description:A shrub or fairly stout, medium sized, 4-5 meter tall, spineless tree with slender, drooping branches, with smooth, grey bark, flaking in large irregular pieces; indumentum of two types, i.e. straight and curved hairs; branchlets glabrous-sub glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate, rarely some with 5 leaflets, petiolate, petiole 4-20 (-25) mm; leaflets 3-27 x 2-13 mm, not tomentose beneath, elliptic-ovate or obovate, obtuse-acute or emarginate, entire. Inflorescence 1-3-flowered, sessile-pedunculate (up to 5 mm) cymes. Flowers with 0.5-3-(-6.0) mm long pedicels. Calyx campanulate, lobes triangular, almost half the length of petals, up to 1.5 mm long. Petals whitish cream coloured, up to 3 mm long. Fruit + rounded-ellipsoid, 5-9 (-10) x 5-7 mm, 4 valved, with four conspicuous lines, glabrous. Pseudoaril having fleshy cup-like basal part and thin upper part, somewhat enveloping the whole. Stone, smooth, compressed, globular, 4-7 x 4-5 mm, 3-4 mm thick
Distribution : Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Arabia. Arabic Name : Bisham, Balsam, Risha'a Saudi Arabia: Abha, Najran, Zaffaf Island, Fayfa, Jeddah. Flowering : Late December to March (-April)
Taxonomic name:commiphora gileadensiis
General description:A shrub or fairly stout, medium sized, 4-5 meter tall, spineless tree with slender, drooping branches, with smooth, grey bark, flaking in large irregular pieces; indumentum of two types, i.e. straight and curved hairs; branchlets glabrous-sub glabrous. Leaves 3-foliolate, rarely some with 5 leaflets, petiolate, petiole 4-20 (-25) mm; leaflets 3-27 x 2-13 mm, not tomentose beneath, elliptic-ovate or obovate, obtuse-acute or emarginate, entire. Inflorescence 1-3-flowered, sessile-pedunculate (up to 5 mm) cymes. Flowers with 0.5-3-(-6.0) mm long pedicels. Calyx campanulate, lobes triangular, almost half the length of petals, up to 1.5 mm long. Petals whitish cream coloured, up to 3 mm long. Fruit + rounded-ellipsoid, 5-9 (-10) x 5-7 mm, 4 valved, with four conspicuous lines, glabrous. Pseudoaril having fleshy cup-like basal part and thin upper part, somewhat enveloping the whole. Stone, smooth, compressed, globular, 4-7 x 4-5 mm, 3-4 mm thick
Distribution : Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Arabia. Arabic Name : Bisham, Balsam, Risha'a Saudi Arabia: Abha, Najran, Zaffaf Island, Fayfa, Jeddah. Flowering : Late December to March (-April)
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