African Plant Database

Ecology and Distribution :
Tropical Africa
Biology :
Scandent shrub to 4 m, or (without support) compact or rambling shrub, to 8 m; many persistant recurved spine-like petioles; bark grey or dark red.
Ecology :
Bushland, thickets, wooded grassland with Acacia and Commiphora; sometimes riverine; 1-1800 m alt.

ENGLER, H. G. A. (1895). Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete - : 229 — under: Commiphora holstii Engl.

Drug Pl. Africa : 83 (1949).

Cat. Pl. Niger 106 (1976)

Cat. Pl. Mali 80 (1986)

Énum. Pl. Fleurs Afr. Trop. 1: 160 (1991).

GILLETT, J.B. (1991). Burseraceae.. Flora of Tropical East Africa. vol. Burseraceae : 86 — under: Commiphora holstii Engl.

Boissiera 55: 95 (1998)

Trav. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V, Sér. Bot. 37: 159 (2005)

Checklist Flow. Pl. Sub-Saharan Africa : 220 (2006).

Fl. Prat. Maroc 2: 199 (2007).

Cat. Pl. Vasc. Burkina Faso:180, 255, 282 (2012)

Pl. Sudan Checklist 234 (2015)

Flore ill. Tchad 379 (2019)

Fl. ill. Burkina Faso & Mali: 522 (2024)