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Commiphora schimperi, also known as glossy-leaved corkwood, is a tree species in the genus Commiphora.It is native eastern and southern Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula, from Sudan and Yemen in the north to Botswana and northern South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Provinces) in the south.
Commiphora is the most species-rich genus of flowering plants in the frankincense and myrrh family, Burseraceae. The genus contains approximately 190 species of shrubs and trees , which are distributed throughout the (sub-) tropical regions of Africa , the western Indian Ocean islands, the Arabian Peninsula , India , and South America .
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Articles relating to the commiphora, the genus of the myrrhs, the most species-rich genus of flowering plants in the frankincense and myrrh family, Burseraceae.The genus contains approximately 190 species of shrubs and trees, which are distributed throughout the (sub-) tropical regions of Africa, the western Indian Ocean islands, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and South America.
It is commonly extracted from the species Commiphora myrrha [a], Commiphora africana, Commiphora erythraea, Commiphora gileadensis, Commiphora habessinica, Commiphora hodai, Commiphora guardricincta, Commiphora schimperi and Commiphora truncata.
The predominant plant communities include deciduous woodland with trees Terminalia (formerly Anogeissus), Vachellia (mostly Vachellia flava and Vachellia tortilis) and Commiphora, shrubland of Olea europaea, Dodonaea viscosa, Carissa spinarum, Balanites aegyptiaca, Cupressus sempervirens, Salix alba, Juglans regia, Populus alba, Populus nigra, Quercus coccifera, Pinus nigra, Ceratonia siliqua ...
This category contains the native flora of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, which calls it Zaire.