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Maerua acuminata

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Name

Identification
Maerua urophylla Gilg-Ben. [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Maerua acuminata Oliv. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Maerua urophylla
  • Maerua acuminata
  • Niebuhria unrecorded

Flora

Entry for MAERUA acuminata Oliv. [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 acuminata Oliv. [family CAPPARACEAE], in F.T.A. 1: 85 (1868); Gilg in P.O.A. C: 186 (1895); Gilg & Bened. in E.J. 53: 246 (1915); Gilg in V.E. 3(1): 250 (1915); T.T.C.L.: 117 (1949); Wild in F.Z. 1: 219 (1960). Type: Tanganyika/Mozambique border, Rovuma R., Kirk (K, holo. !)
MAERUA urophylla C. Gilg [family CAPPARACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 13: 274 (1936); T.T.C.L.: 119 (1949). Type: Tanganyika: Lindi District, Rondo Plateau, Schlieben 6179 (B, holo. !)
Information
Shrub with brittle twigs, glabrous but for the margin of the sepals. Leaves petiolate, simple or 3-foliolate; blade ovate, 3–6.5 cm. long, 1–2.6 cm. wide, acuminate, the midrib excurrent as a mucro, basally broadly cuneate to rounded, papery, coppery-green above, paler beneath; petiole up to 3.5 cm. long. Inflorescence a short lateral or terminal corymbose raceme; pedicels slender, stiffly spreading, ± 1.5–2 cm. long. Sepals ± 6–7 mm. long, marginally tomentellous; receptacle narrowly cylindrical, ± 3 mm. long; disk with a free rim up to 0.75 mm. long, unevenly dentate. Petals 0. Stamens about 25; filaments 1–2 cm. long. Ovary ellipsoid-cylindrical, ± 2 mm. long at anthesis; stigma capitate. Fruits unknown.
Range
DISTR. T8
Altitude range
550–660 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Lindi District Rondo Plateau, 23 Mar. 1935, Schlieben 6179 !TANGANYIKA Newala, 5 Feb. 1959, Hay 33 !
Distribution (external)
; ? Mozambique
Notes
Kirk travelled the Rovuma by boat and it is impossible to ascertain whether this species, which is unknown apart from the single holotype sheet and two recent collections, was first collected in Tanganyika or Mozambique.

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