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Maerua buxifolia

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Name

Identification
Maerua rigida Not on sheet. [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Maerua buxifolia Gilg & Benedict [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Maerua welwitschii
  • Maerua buxifolia
  • Maerua rigida

Flora

Entry for Maerua buxifolia Welw. ex Oliv. Gilg & Bened. [family CAPPARIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 1, page 194, (1960) Author: H. Wild
Names
Maerua rigida var. buxifolia Welw. ex Oliv. [family CAPPARIDACEAE], F.T.A. 1: 86 (1868). Type as above.
Maerua buxifolia Welw. ex Oliv. Gilg & Bened. [family CAPPARIDACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 53: 249 (1915). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1 1: 60 (1937). — Type from Angola (Mossamedes).
Information
Small shrub very like M. parvifolia but the leaves are entirely glabrous, free from papillae and more glaucous; but the most important diagnostic character is that the petioles are always entirely glabrous and smooth. This is never the case with M. parvifolia even in the more glabrescent forms.
Habitat
A species of Colophospermum mopane woodland or mixed woodland in the hotter and drier areas.
Distribution
Zimbabwe C Gatooma, fr. 20.xii.1927, Eyles 5078 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Sebungwe, near Sinansanga, fl. x.1955, Davies 1441 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
southern Angola

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