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Maerua crassifolia

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Name

Identification
Maerua meyeri-johannis Gilg [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Maerua crassifolia Forssk. [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Maerua meyeri-johannis
  • Maerua thomsonii
  • Maerua angloensis
  • Maerua hirtella
  • Maerua senegalensis
  • Maerua uguenensis
  • Wiegmannia arabica
  • Maerua rigida
  • Maerua crassifolia
  • Maerua uniflora
Common name
  • sogui (Aub.) (MALI, FULA-PULAAR (Mali)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • (‘Maure’) aneb (Aub.) athil (Aub.) iatil (Aub.) libti (Aub.) (SENEGAL, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • jiga (Aub.) ziga (Aub.) (NIGER, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • jirga (ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA (West)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • sogui (Aub.) (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • arkenn (Aub.) harikane (Aub.) (NIGER, TUBU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • atil (A. Chev.; GR) (MALI, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • gazari (MM) jiga (Lely; KO&S) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ngθ́zθ́rì (JMD; C&H) (NIGERIA, KANURI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • sarah (JMD; KO&S) (NIGERIA, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • ngusuri (Aub.) (NIGER, TUBU (Kaningou)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • adiar (Aub.) adjar (A. Chev.) agar (A. Chev.; Aub.) atil (A. Chev.) tagart (Aub.) teghert (B&T) (MALI, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • hàsì (pl.-ò) (D&C) (NIGER, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • atîl (Leriche & Mokhtar Ould Hamidoun) (MAURITANIA, ARABIC (Hassaniya)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • bérédiu (Aub.) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • (‘Maure’) aneb (Aub.) athil (Aub.) iatil (Aub.) libti (Aub.) (MAURITANIA, ARABIC), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for MAERUA crassifolia Forssk. [family CAPPARACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Fici (Boscia, Cadaba, Capparis), M. Thulin & L. E. Kers (Cleome, Maerua), and M. Thulin (Dipterygium, Puccionia, Thilachium) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
MAERUA crassifolia Forssk. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1775), nom. cons.
MAERUA hirtella Chiov. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1929);. type: C1, “Magghiole”, Puccioni & Stefanini 474 (FT holo.).
Information
Shrub or tree; stems usually densely pubescent. Leaves clustered on older branches, simple; blade oblanceolate to obovate, c. 10–40 x 7–22 mm, usually obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, pubescent, midrib raised beneath; petiole 1–5 mm long. Flowers solitary or in 2–4-flowered clusters; pedicels 2–10 mm long, pubescent. Receptacle cylindrical, c. 4–7 mm long. Sepals (3–)4, 4–12 mm long. Petals absent. Stamens c. 20–40; androgynophore as long as receptacle or exceeding it by up to 4 mm. Ovary narrowly cylindrical, 2–4 mm long; gynophore 8–20 mm long and often recurved in fruit. Fruit 2.5–7 x 0.3–0.6 cm, torulose, pubescent, usually several-seeded.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3 Eritrea, Ethiopia and west to Senegal, East Africa, Arabia and Israel and east to Pakistan.
Altitude range
20–1000 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hansen 4309; Thulin 4183; Hemming 2018.
Notes
The original type of M. crassifolia has recently turned out to belong to M. thomsonii T. Anders. (see below). To make possible the continued use of M. crassifolia in its traditional sense the name has been conserved with a new type (Kers & Thulin in Taxon 41: 588, 1992).

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