Chifata

viminea: with long, flexible shoots

Single-stemmed small tree. Bark creamy-grey or pale greenish with blackish horizontal bands of rough lenticels; young branches purplish, spine-tipped. Leaves clustered on small lateral spine-tipped branchlets, usually simple (1-foliolate), obovate, up to 4.5 × 2.5 cm, bluish-green, hairless except for long glandular hairs near the base; margin scalloped; petiole very short to absent. Flowers in small inconspicuous clusters on the spur-branchlets, yellowish, appearing just before or with the new leaves. Fruit ellipsoid, up to 1.3 cm long, pointed, hairless, reddish-brown when ripe, splitting to reveal a black seed with a 4-lobed yellow pseudo-aril, almost completely covering the seed.

Botswana, Mozambique, northern Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Die Sebrabaskanniedood (Commiphora viminea) is 'n klein (9 m) immergroen boom wat beperk is tot basaltiese grond in die noorde en noordooste van Punda Maria in die Krugerwildtuin, en ook in die suidooste van Zimbabwe voorkom.