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Maerua oblongifolia

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Name

Identification
Maerua oblongifolia A.Rich. [family CAPPARACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Maerua dolichobotrys Gilg & Benedict [family CAPPARACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Maerua unrecorded
  • Capparis oblongifolia
  • Maerua endlichii
  • Maerua amphilahensis
  • Maerua intricata
  • Polygala persicariaefolia
  • Maerua albomarginata
  • Maerua dolichobotrys
  • Maerua scebelensis
  • Maerua camporum
  • Maerua virgata
  • Capparis mithridatica
  • Maerua oblongifolia
  • Maerua somalensis
  • Niebuhria oblongifolia
  • Maerua rogeoni
Common name
  • gul (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • n-gen (JB; K&A) n-gensé (K&A) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for MAERUA oblongifolia (Forssk.) A. Rich. [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 oblongifolia (Forssk.) A. Rich. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1847).
MAERUA scebelensis Chiov. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1927);. types: S2, Paoli 4 & 17 (both FT syn.).
Information
Scrambling shrub up to 3 m tall; stems and leaves glabrous or rough by short stiff hairs. Leaves simple; blade narrowly to broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, c. 15–45 x 6–20(–30) mm, rounded to subacute at the apex, midrib prominent beneath; petiole 2–6(–9) mm long. Flowers in short dense corymbose racemes; pedicels stout, mostly 5–9 mm long in flower, up to 15–18 mm long in fruit. Receptacle cylindrical, widening upwards, 4–10 mm long. Sepals 4, 7–12 mm long. Petals 4–11 mm long. Stamens many; anthers 1–2.5 mm long; androgynophore exceeding the receptacle by 2–5 mm in fruit. Ovary cylindrical, 2–4 mm long; gynophore 15–20 mm long in fruit, straight. Fruits cylindrical, 1–3.5 x up to 1.4 cm, very torulose, usually glabrous, with the seeds normally in 4 rows.
Range
N1–3; S2, 3 Eritrea, Ethiopia and west to Senegal and Mali, Kenya, Uganda
Altitude range
0–1420 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Beckett 967; Bally 9518; Gillett 4509.
Distribution (external)
Arabia
Notes
Galan (Som.-N), hadi bil (Som.-S).

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