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|image = Commiphora madagascariensis.jpg<br />
|image_caption = ''Commiphora madagascariensis'' grown in West Bengal, India<br />
|status = NT<br />
|status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
|status_ref = <ref name=iucn/><br />
|genus = Commiphora<br />
|species = madagascariensis<br />
|authority = Jacq. (1797)<br />
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'''''Commiphora madagascariensis''''', with the [[common name]] '''Madagascar corkwood''',<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Commiphora madagascariensis - Madagascar Corkwood |url=https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Madagascar%20Corkwood.html |access-date=2022-06-08 |website=www.flowersofindia.net}}</ref> is a [[flowering plant]] in the family [[Burseraceae]]. The species is native to Tanzania, introduced into India.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Description ==<br />
This slender sometimes scandent shrub or tree (1–15 m) is found in thickets and semi-evergreen dry forest at elevations of 0–660 m.<br />
[[File:Commiphora wightii.jpg|alt=Leaves close-ups'|thumb|Close-up of leaves]]<br />
The bark smooth, dark brown, grey-brown or green-brown; branches often spiny, hairless. Leaves are 1-foliolate or 3-foliolate with 2 much smaller lateral leaflets; leaf-stalk very short, about 1&nbsp;mm long, or considerably longer, up to 1–5&nbsp;cm; leaflet-blade up to 4 x 1–5&nbsp;cm, elliptic or narrowly ovate-spoon-shaped, tip pointed or blunt, margins finely rounded saw-toothed, base wedge-shaped, hairless on both sides. Flowers appear before the leaves or with the young leaves in nearly stalkless clusters on short side-shoots or spines. Sepal-cup is about 2&nbsp;mm long, tubular, lobed to 1/3 to 1/2-way, and hairless. Petals are about 4&nbsp;mm long. Disk-lobes are 4. Stamen-filaments slender, nearly round. Fruit is about 1-2 x 0–6&nbsp;cm, ellipsoid, somewhat flattened, hairless, tip somewhat apiculate.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Commiphora madagascariensis Jacq – Shri Dhanwantry Ayurvedic College & Hospital |url=https://www.sdach.ac.in/dravyaguna-vigyan-blogs/commiphora-madagascariensis-jacq/ |access-date=2022-06-08 |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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== Endangerment and rescue ==<br />
[[World Conservation Union]] (IUCN) has enlisted it in its [[IUCN Red List]] of threatened species. The species is known from 11 locations, some of which have threats such as urbanisation (Mjimwema), increasing human population (Mnazi Bay) or planned hydropower schemes (Stiegler's Gorge). We assess this species as Near Threatened, as it is close to meeting the thresholds for listing in a threatened category.<ref name=iucn>{{Cite web |last=Mwangoka, M., Ndangalasi, H., Kindeketa, W., Luke, W.R.Q., Kabuye, C., Kalema, J., Minani, V., Kelbessa, E., Gereau, R.E. & Malombe |date=13 May 2009 |title=Commiphora madagascariensis |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/179786/1590034 |access-date=8 June 2022 |website=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Commiphora|madagascariensis]]<br />
[[Category:Endemic flora of Tanzania]]<br />
[[Category:Plants described in 1797]]</div>Indiabulez