Pistacia khinjuk Stocks ex Stocks

Deciduous tree; leaves 8-15 cm,
imparipinnate,
glabrous

(our varieties),
the rhachis terete,
not winged; leaflets 1-4 pairs,

2-6 x 1-2.5 cm,
lanceolate,
the base oblique,
the apex acuminate; terminal leaflet petioliolate,
slightly shorter than the laterals; male flowers: subsessile,
in erect,
much-branched loose panicles to 10 cm; stamens 4-5,
filaments,
rudimentary; pistil minute; female flowers: pedicellate,
in loose spreading panicle to 15 cm; perianth c. 2.5 mm; ovary c. 2.5 mm; style very short,
stigmas longer than the ovary; drupe 5-6 x 5 mm,
depressed globose-ovoid,
apiculate,
glabrous…var microphylla: Leaflets 1-2( -3)-paired,
never 4-paired,
1.5-2.5 x 1-1.5 em.

Gebel Elba,
Egypt,
Desert east,
Bishareen of Gebel Elba

Perennail

Height: 3-6 m

Found in dry rocky areas from 1524-2438 m.

Tree or shrub up to 6 m tall. Young shoots puberulous. Leaves imparipinnate. Leaflets 3-7 in number, coriaceous, opposite to subopposite, subsessile, 45-76 x 26-55 mm, ovate to ovate-oblong, glabrous (young leaves puberulous), apiculate or subacuminate, base often oblique; terminal leaflet larger than the laterals; rachis ± terete, sparsely puberulous. Panicles extra-axillary, suberect, 14-16(-22) cm long. Drupe 4-6 mm long, suborbicular in outline, compressed, apiculate, epicarp nervose, but not prominently so.

Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Himalaya (Kashmir to Nepal), Burma.

Distribution: Turkey, N. Iraq, N. Syria, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

750-1300 m

Fl. Per.: March-April.

Pistacia khinjuk is a species of plant in the family Anacardiaceae native to Egypt, western Asia and parts of the Himalayas. The tree grows up to 10 metres. The epithet comes from the name for the plant in Balochistan, khinjuk (خنجک).