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Description
Genus Commiphora
Trees
or shrubs
, often armed
or thorny. Leaves alternate or fascicled, compound
, l-3 (or more) -foliolate, imparipinnate
; leaflets
sessile or subsessile
, serrate, crenate
, or entire. Flowers solitary or in fascicles of 2-5 or in panicles, small, sessile-subsessile, bisexual
or unisexual
. Calyx cupular, urceolate
or tubular
, 4 toothed
or lobed
, persistent
. Petals 4, valvate
. Stamens mostly 8, inserted
on the margin
of the annular
or cupular disc, filaments
usually unequal, dilated
at the base
. Ovary ovoid
, sessile, 2-4-loculed, each locule 2 ovuled; syle short with 2-4 obtusely lobed stigma. Fruit a drupe, globose
or subglobose, compressed
or not.
A genus of about 185 species found in India, W. Pakistan, Arabia, Tropical
and Southern Africa
. [1]
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [2].
Ecology: Dry areas.[2].
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rutanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Sapindales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Burseraceae
()
- Kunth, 1824, nom. cons.
- Tribe:
Bursereae
()
- Genus:
Commiphora
()
- N.J. Jacquin, 1797, nom. cons.
- Myrrh
- Specific epithet:
wightii
- (Arn.) Bhandari
- Botanical name: - Commiphora wightii (Arn.) Bhandari
- Specific epithet:
wightii
- (Arn.) Bhandari
- Genus:
Commiphora
(
- Tribe:
Bursereae
(
- Family:
Burseraceae
(
- Order:
Sapindales
(
- Superorder:
Rutanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author
: Bhandari Publication
: Bull
. Bot. Surv. India vi.
327 (1965)
Basionym
author: (Arn.)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Commiphora
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
C. capensis (Commiphora) · C. habessinica (Abyssinian Myrrh) · C. merkeri (Zebrabark Myrrh) · C. mukul (Gugulipid) · C. myrrha (Myrrh Gum) · C. opobalsamum (Mecca Myrrh) · C. saxicola (Commiphora)
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Further Reading
- The World List of Threatened Trees WCMC, IUCN url p. 139.
- The ethnobotany of southern Balochistan, Pakistan: with particular reference to medicinal plants / Steven M. Goodman, Abdul Ghafoor. 31 1992 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c1992. url p. 26, p. 56, p. 81.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- CAMP Workshops on Medicinal Plants, India 1998. Commiphora wightii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5884185
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:127856-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 127856-1
- IUCN ID: 201617
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1019871
Footnotes
- "Commiphora". in Flora of Pakistan . Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- CAMP Workshops on Medicinal Plants, India 1998. Commiphora wightii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]
