Commiphora pyracanthoides Engl.
subsp. pyracanthoides

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Commiphora pyracanthoides subsp. pyracanthoides

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Crocodile Farm, Kariba

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Synonyms:	Commiphora pyracanthoides Engl. subsp. pyracanthoides
Common names:	Firethorn corkwood (English) Mubwabwa (Shona) Mukwendekwende (Shona) Munyera (Shona)
Frequency:
Status:	Native
Description:	Usually a low spreading much-branched shrub, up to 3 m tall, often forming thickets, rarely a small tree. Bark grey to yellowish-green, flaking in small papery, cream-coloured pieces; short lateral branchlets spine-tipped. Leaves clustered, subsessile, 1-foliolate, sometimes 3-foliolate with much reduced lateral leaflets; lamina obovate, up to 5.5 × 3.2 cm, hairless but sometimes with scattered glands near the base of the midrib; margin toothed. Flowers small, bell-shaped, reddish, in subsessile clusters on the spine-tipped branchlets, appearing before the leaves. Fruit broadly ellipsoid, pointed, c. 1 cm long, hairless. Seeds black with a 3-4-armed red pseudaril. Note: This species is generally similar to C. glandulosa differing mainly in the general shrub-like habit and the hairless calyx. Some 3-foliolate leaves, mostly with very reduced lateral leaflets, are usually present, while in C. glandulosa these are very rare.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	pyracanthoides: resembling a Pyracantha sp. (Rosaceae)
Habitat:	Occurring in dry deciduous open woodland.
Altitude range: (metres)
Flowering time:	Oct - Nov
Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Limpopo, North-West and Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Zimbabwe distribution:	N,W,S
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Content last updated:	Thursday 21 January 2010
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Other sources of information about Commiphora pyracanthoides:

Flora of Mozambique: Commiphora pyracanthoides
Biodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Commiphora pyracanthoides
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Commiphora pyracanthoides
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Commiphora pyracanthoides
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Commiphora pyracanthoides
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Commiphora pyracanthoides
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Commiphora pyracanthoides
JSTOR Plant Science: Commiphora pyracanthoides
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Commiphora pyracanthoides
Tropicos: Commiphora pyracanthoides
West African Plants database: Commiphora pyracanthoides

Commiphora pyracanthoides Engl. subsp. pyracanthoides