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Identification
Courbonia virgata Brongn. [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Maerua edulis (Gilg & Benedict) DeWolf [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Courbonia glauca
  • Maerua pseudopetalosa
  • Maerua unrecorded
  • Courbonia virgata
  • Maerua edulis
  • Courbonia pseudopetalosa
  • Courbonia calothamnia
  • Courbonia calothamna
  • Saheria virgata
Common name
  • kùmkúm, kθ̀mkθ́m (C&H) (NIGERIA, KANURI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for MAERUA edulis (Gilg & Bened.) DeWolf [family CAPPARACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1964) Author: J. ELFFERS, R. A. GRAHAM AND G. P. DEWOLF
Names
MAERUA edulis (Gilg & Bened.) DeWolf [family CAPPARACEAE], in K.B. 16: 82 (1962). Type: Tanganyika, Dodoma District, “ Ugogo ”, Kannenberg 6 (B, lecto.!)
Physanthemum glaucum Klotzsch [family ], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 1: 167, t. 29 (1861), non Maerua glauca Chiov. Type: Mozambique, Sena, Peters (B, holo.)
Courbonia decumbens [family CAPPARACEAE], [sensu Oliv. in F.T.A. 1: 88 (1868), pro parte, excl. specim. Courbon; Gilg in P.O.A. C: 186 (1895) & V.E. 3(1): 244 (1915); Burtt Davy, Checkl. For. Trees & Shrubs Brit. Emp. 1, Uganda: 33 (1935), non Brongn.]
Courbonia edulis Gilg & Bened. [family CAPPARACEAE], in E.J. 53: 218 (1915); T.T.C.L.: 114 (1949)
Courbonia bussei Gilg & Bened. [family CAPPARACEAE], in E.J. 53: 219 (1915); T.T.C.L.: 114 (1949). Types: Tanganyika, Dodoma District, Ugogo, Busse 167 (B, syn. !) & Mpwapwa, Stuhlmann 250 (B, syn. !)
Courbonia prunicarpa Gilg & Bened. [family CAPPARACEAE], in E.J. 53: 219 (1915); T.T.C.L.: 115 (1949). Type: Tanganyika, Kilwa District, Mandandu [Matandu], Busse 524 (B, holo. !)
Courbonia camporum Gilg & Bened. [family CAPPARACEAE], in E.J. 53: 220 (1915); T.S.K.: 11 (1936); F.P.N.A. 1: 205 (1948); T.T.C.L.: 114 (1949); Hauman & Wilczek in F.C.B. 2: 502, pl. 49 (1951). Type: Kenya, Kwale District, Waturuma, Kassner 147 (B, lecto. !, K, isolecto. !)
Courbonia glauca (Klotzsch) Gilg & Bened. [family CAPPARACEAE], in E.J. 53: 221 (1915); T.T.C.L.: 115 (1949); Milne-Redh. in Mem. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 217 (1953); Wild in F.Z. 1: 214, t. 34A (1960); K.T.S.: 121 (1961); F.F.N.R.: 62 (1962)
Courbonia calothamna Gilg & Bened. [family CAPPARACEAE], in E.J. 53: 221 (1915); T.T.C.L.: 114 (1949). Type: Kenya, Machakos District, Kibwezi, Scheffler 99 (B, lecto., BM, K, isolecto. !)
Courbonia virgata [family CAPPARACEAE], [sensu Battiscombe, T.S.K.: 11 (1936), non Brongn.]
Information
Spreading shrub or bushy woody herb, 3–30 dm. tall, with a persistent woody thickened root, glabrous. Leaves petiolate, simple; blade broadly lanceolate, ovate or suborbicular, rounded to acute, mucronate at the apex, rounded at the base, generally prominently 3–5-nerved; petiole 5–7 mm. long. Flowers many, borne singly in the upper leaf-axils; pedicels 1–2.5 cm. long. Sepals 3–4, elliptic, 9–13 mm. long; receptacle 2–4 mm. long. Petals 0. Androphore about 1 mm. longer than the receptacle; stamens 1.5–3 cm. long. Gynophore 1.9–3 cm. long, generally recurved at maturity; ovary spindle-shaped, 4–6 mm. long. Fruits globose, 1.5–2 cm. in diameter, yellow or orange, 1–4-seeded.
Range
DISTR. U1–3; K1, 3–7; T1–8
Altitude range
0–1800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province 7 km. E. of Moyale, 4 July 1952, Gillett 13512 !;KENYA Ravine District 32 km. E. of Eldama Ravine, 8 Feb. 1957, Bogdan 4465 !;KENYA Teita District Bura, 1932, Gardner in F.D. 3011 !TANGANYIKA Shinyanga District Usanda, 1938, Koritschoner 1727!;TANGANYIKA Morogoro District about 26 km. E. of Morogoro, 25 Nov. 1955, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 7431 !;TANGANYIKA Iringa District Idodi, June/July 1936, Ward 91 !UGANDA W. Nile District Rhino Camp, 27 Mar. 1936, Michelmore 1392 !;UGANDA Bunyoro District Butiaba Flats, Oct. 1933, Eggeling 1438 in F.H. 1384!;UGANDA Mbale District Sebei, about 72 km. from Mbale on the Nginge road, 17 Jan. 1955, Norman 244 !
Distribution (external)
Mozambique
Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia
extreme eastern Congo Republic
south to the Transvaal
Somali Republic (S.)
Ethiopia
Notes
M. edulis is closely related to both M. subcordata (Gilg) DeWolf and M. decumbens (Brongn.) DeWolf, a species known only from NE. Africa.

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